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PRINCETON  .  NEW  JERSEY 

FROM  THE  LIBRARY  OF 
ROBERT  ELLIOTT  SPEER 

BV    4070    .M76    R62    1900 
Robinson,    Margaret   Blake. 
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MARGARET  BLAKE    ROBINSON 


CHICAGO 

The  Bible   Institute  Colportage  Association 

2 so  La  .Salle  Avenue 


cx)rviii(;n  r,    1900 

THK    BIHLF.    INSTirrTK    COLI'URTACIK    ASSOCIATION 


CONTENTS 


CHAPTER  PAGE 

I.  First  Glimi'Sks        ....,..(; 

II.     Miss  Stroxg's  Wklco.mk i.') 

III.     "Music  Hath  Charm.?" 20 

IV  CiiicKEX  AXD  Other  Thinc.s             ...            26 

V.  "Rightly  Dividing   the  Wori/'          .         .         -34 

VI.  How  One  Day  Was  Spent       .                  .         .            41 

VII.     Touching  Human  SouL^5 52 

VIII  About  the  "White  Fields"    ....            61 

IX.     Facts  and  Philosophy 67 

X.  "In  Prison,  and  Ye  Visited  Me"           .         .             74 

XI.  Miss  Hall  and  the  Young  Idea          ...       77 

XII.  The  Pound,  "On  Bell,"  and  Thanksihying  Day      85 

XI II.  D.  L.  Moody,  the  Servant  of  God        .         .  90 

XIV.  Words  that  I  Treasure loi 

XV.  The  Safety  of  the  Sheep       ....          106 

XVI.  Telling  Incidents  of  the  Work         .         .         .114 

XVII.  The  Faith    Delivered  to  the  Saints           .          131 


CHAPTER    I 

FIRST    GLIMPSKS 

"So  this  is  the  Bible  Institute,  is  it?" 

The  cabman  pockets  his  fee,  and  says:  "No,  tliat 
'ere  ain't — that's  where  the  wimen  students  live,  I 
b'lieve,  and  d'Institoot's  round  the  corner.  Say," 
(confidentially),  "do  you  b'lieve  wimen  ought  to 
preach?" 

Now,  being  well  aware  that  the  best  way  to  learn 
is  to  come  unburdened  with  "set  and  sure"  doc- 
trines I  answer: 

"It  all  depends  upon  the  woman  I  suppose.  Per- 
haps I  can  tell  you  better  a  year  from  now." 

"Then  you  intend  to  preach,"  he  says  very  slowly, 
and  before  I  can  tell  him  that  he  takes  my  inten- 
tions for  granted  too  easily,  he  adds,  "yes,  I  sup- 
pose it  all  d'pends  on  de  woman.  Hope  you'll  do 
well." 

"Thank  you,"  I  answer,  and  I  shake  his  hand. 

I  would  shake  the  hand  of  a  pirate  or  a  stray  Fiji 


lO  A     R|-.1H)R  IKR     AT     MOODV   S 

Islander  to-night,  for  I  am  a  stranger  in  the  Windy 
City,  tired  after  the  weary  ride  from  New  York,  and 
not  at  all  certain  what  my  life  will  be  in  the  big 
building  I  am  facing. 

A  bit  of  personal  history  may  not  be  out  of  place 
here,  and  it  may  make  my  reader  understand  me 
and  my  conclusions  better. 

I  have  been  a  newspaper  woman  for  seven  years, 
and  a  Christian  only  four.  Born  and  brought  up  in 
the  Roman  Catholic  faith  and  nurtured  in  its  bosom, 
I  came  easily  to  look  upon  it  as  the  true  church.  A 
priest  once  told  my  father,  after  I  had  answered 
some  catechism  questions  in  a  rather  bright  way, 
that  I  would  yet  be  a  defender  of  the  faith.  He  did 
not  know  then  how  true  God  could  make  his  words, 
or  how  He  would  teach  me  what  the  faith  was. 

If  I  could  describe  the  way  in  which  I  drifted  into 
agnosticism  it  would  do  no  good,  but  I  really  can- 
not. I  had  a  passion  for  knowledge,  and  a  con- 
tempt for  people  who  accepted  as  true  what  other 
people  told  them,  without  personal  investigation. 
The  only  thing  I  firmly  believed  was  that  sex  did 
not  count  in  either  goodness  or  brains,  and  that  I 
was  going  to  be  as  good  and  as  brave  as  if  I  were 
a  boy. 


FIRST    GLIMPSES  II 

I  was  born  in  Ireland,  and  loved  it  as  perhaps  few 
girls  ever  loved  their  own  land.  I  commenced  to 
love  it  and  study  its  tragic  history  when  most  girls 
are  playing  with  dolls;  and  as  church  and  state  are 
closely  intertwined  in  the  past  history  of  the 
country,  I  could  not  help  questioning  many  things, 
with  the  result  that  I  dethroned  some  popular  saints 
and  heroes  and  elected  others  that  it  was  even 
heresy  to  mention. 

In  spite  of  the  beauty  of  the  ideal  Christ,  religion 
I  believed  to  be  a  relic  of  the  dark  ages,  crudely 
remodeled  as  a  family  institution.  Sectarianism 
and  its  squabbles  wearied  and  puzzled  me  too,  and 
after  a  time  I  followed  Swift  in  his  decision  that 
Protestants  and  Roman  Catholics  had  religion 
enough  to  make  them  Jiate,  but  not  enough  to  make 
them  love  one  another.  But  this  was  the  "follow- 
ing" of  an  immature  mind,  and  when  I  became 
converted  through  the  influence  of  that  woman  of 
God,  Mrs.  Ballington  Booth,  I  decided  that  real 
religion  was  not  a  matter  of  creed,  but  of  personal 
conviction.  It  was  not  a  question  of  "what  denom- 
ination," but  of  meeting  the  Savior  of  the  world  and 
hearing  Him  say:  "I  am  the  door;  by  Me  if  any 
man  enter  in  he  shall  be  saved." 


12  A     KKl'ORTKR     A'l"    MOODY  S 

I  went  to  report  a  si)ecch  of  Mis.  Ii(joth's  for  the 
press,  and  never  ^ot  away  from  her  inlhience  until 
I  knew  my  Lord.  Now  I  eould  understand  her 
statement  that  "soul-savini^  broug-ht  more  joy  than 
anvthini;-  else  on  earth."  I  had  experienced  the 
miracle  of  conversion.  Doubt  and  denial  had  van- 
ished like  a  mirage^  and  in  the  light  of  the  Sun  of 
Righteousness  I  saw  things  in  their  true  proportions 
and  in  their  proper  place.  I  learned  that  Roman 
Catholicism  and  Protestantism  had  many  of  God's 
jewels  in  their  caskets,  but  alas!  I  learned  too  that 
there  are  many  jewels  lost  and  others  still  unpol- 
ished, and  that  the  fields  are  white  for  the  harvest. 

Let  me  give  this  word  of  warning  to  Christian 
workers.  Meet  an  honest  doubter  honestly  and 
intelligently.  It  was  because  a  clergyman  "pooh- 
poohed"  my  doubts  that  I  went  over  to  infidelity 
where  truth  was  (as  I  then  thought)  given  its  own 
honored  place,  and  where  even  kindergarten  ques- 
tions were  respected.  Questioning  a  truth  is  not 
denying  it.  Every  person  has  the  sacred  right  of 
saying:  "Has  my  Lord  said  this,  and  is  this  the 
true  interpretation?"  As  Mr.  Torrey  said  one  day: 
"Whatever  God  does  is  right,  and  God  will  not  do 
anything  that  is  not  right." 


WOMEN'S  DEPARTMENT  (MAIN  BUILDING). 
228,  230,  232  L,aSalle  Avenue. 


14  A    REF'ORTER     AT    MOODY  S 

My  Bible  was  practicall}'  a  sealed  book  to  me,  and 
I  wanted  it  opened  by  hands  that  would  handle  its 
pages  reverently  and  point  me  to  the  truth.  It  was 
not  theolog-y  or  controversy  or  scholarship  I  wanted, 
as  much  as  the  "words  of  life, "the  "Thus  saith  the 
Lord  '  that  I  could  live  and  die  by.  I  wanted  to 
make  up  to  my  blessed  Lord  for  all  the  years  I  had 
denied  Him.  I  wanted  to  work  for  the  salvation  of 
the  lost,  because  He  had  put  something  within  my 
own  soul  that  would  not  let  me  keep  quiet.  I 
believed  my  Bible,  because  when  I  took  its  Author 
at  His  word  He  saved  me,  and  gave  me  new  life, 
new  desires,  a  new  vision,  new  power, — Himself. 
Yet  of  course  there  were  things  in  the  Bible  I  could 
not  understand,  so  I  commenced  to  read  on  the  sub- 
ject. But  alas!  the  libraries  contained  whole  rows 
of  books  trying  to  compromise  on  certain  truths  the 
writer's  own  darkened  soul  could  not  accept;  but 
few  indeed  did  I  find  who  believed  God's  Word 
fully. 

I  turned  away  sick  at  heart.  Was  God  a  liar? 
Could  Christ  tell  a  truth  in  one  place  and  a  lie  in 
another?  Was  the  Bible  His  Word?  Are  there  no 
prophets  to-day?  Is  there  no  one  who  is  a  living 
monument  to  God's  truth? 


FIRST    GLIM  PS KS  I  5 

"Yes,  there  is  Moody." 

The  answer  came  from  a  New  York  society 
woman,  who,  while  not  accepting  the  Bible  as  j\lr. 
Moody  did,  yet  saw  God's  marvelous  power  in  his 
life.  She  was  a  true  Christ-follower,  and  felt  her 
own  spiritual  life  quickened  by  his  teacliino^. 

"I  believe  in  Moody,"  she  said  to  me.  "He  is 
honest,  he  is  not  a  fanatic,  he  is  practical,  he 
believes  and  lives  what  he  says.      Go  to  Moody's. " 

Then  I  recalled  the  fact  that  the  newspapers  be- 
lieved in  him,  that  they  gave  columns  to  his  simple 
talks,  and  that  while  the  reporters  smiled  at  his 
out-of-date  orthodoxy  and  his  attacks  upon  the 
Sunday  newspaper,  they  said: 

"But  he  means  what  he  says.  Moody  cannot  be 
bought." 

So  much  for  one  man's  sincerity.  I  thank  God 
that  I  listened  to  the  voice  of  the  friend  who  said, 
"Go  to  Moody's."  And  now  you  know  why  I  rang 
the  bell  at  No.  230  La  Salle  Avenue,  Chicago,  which, 
as  the  cabman  said,  is  "where  the  women  students 
live." 


CHAPTER    II 

]\iiss  s'rRON(;'s  welcome 
It  is  lo  o'clock  at  night,  and  I  am  ushered  into  the 
library  by  a  student.  Now,  every  one  who  has  been 
fortunate  enough  to  have  been  a  resident  of  the 
Women's  Department  knows  what  the  library  is 
like.  The  tempting  rows  of  books  (the  rows  not  as 
large  or  as  long  as  we  wish,  though),  that  charm 
her  into  the  regions  of  Christian  philosophy,  or 
carry  her  away  to  heathen  lands,  or  transport  her 
back  to  the  days  when  Jesus  of  Nazareth  walked 
among  men,  are  not  the  least  welcome  among  the 
many  privileges  offered.  She  knows,  too,  that  that 
stamp  box  on  the  mantelpiece  is  patronized  often, 
and  she  remembers  as  one  of  the  pleasantest  recol- 
lections of  the  day,  the  half-hour  spent  in  letter 
writing  to  dear  ones  at  home,  and  the  enthusiastic 
desire  she  was  possessed  of  to  have  all  her  friends 
desert  the  camp  and  come  to  the  Institute.      But  they 

had  to  "tarry  by  the  stuff,"  as  she  perhaps  is  doing 

16     ' 


MISS    STRONC;   S    WELCOME  I  7 

now,  if  she  is  a  pastor's  wife  (and  theie  are  many 
such  among  former  students). 

But  here  I  am  dreaming  about  other  days,  and 
"seein'  things  at  niglit,"  while  ^liss  Strong  is  wait- 
ing to  shake  hands  with  me. 

The  pleasant  woman  before  me  has  almost  a 
hundred  students  here,  but  I  am  none  the  less  con- 
vinced that  she  is  glad  to  have  inc.  What  a  world 
of  cheer  there  is  in  a  hearty  handshake!  I  am  sure 
that  when  my  worthy  ancestor  Robinson  Crusoe 
met  Friday,  he  shook  hands  with  him  with  as  much 
joy  as  if  he  had  been  named  Sunday.  Aliss  Strong 
does  not  take  a  woman's  hand  as  if  she  were  trying 
to  feel  her  pulse  without  letting  her  know  it.  While 
she  talks  to  me  I  recall  the  Avords  of  a  letter  I 
received  from  Miss  Sara  L.  Carson,  a  former  Insti- 
tute girl,  who  is  now  at  the  head  of  a  Gospel  settle- 
ment in  New  York,  and  whose  work  and  life  do 
credit  to  her  Alma  Mater : 

"I  rejoice  that  you  are  going  to  the  Bible  Insti- 
tute," she  wrote.  "I  know  what  a  dear  true  friend 
you  will  find  in  Miss  Strong,  I  can  promise  you 
that  you  will  never  be  disappointed  in  her.'' 

"I  do  not  believe  I  will,"  I  assure  myself,  and  then 
the  object  of  my  thoughts  advises  me   to  go  to  bed. 


MISS    STR0N(;'S    WELCOME  1 9 

I  like  my  little  room;  it  is  airy,  light,  and  pleas- 
ant. It  contains  a  cozy  bed,  a  book-shelf  for  my 
treasures,  a  writing  table,  and  the  etceteras.  They 
are  all  etceteras  to-night,  except  the  bed.  I  look  at 
my  watch  and  note  that  it  is  1 1  p.  m.,  and  in  spite 
of  the  musical  breakfast  bell,  I  do  not  resume 
acquaintance  with  myself  for  ten  hours  afterwards. 
I  awake  with  an  appetite  that  always  goes  where  I 
go,  and  after  satisfying  it,  I  go  where  ev^ery  one  else 
is  going — to  the  lecture  room,  which  is  in  the  men's 
department,  separated  only  by  an  alley  from  the 
women's  quarters. 


CHAPTER    III 


'music   hath   charms" 
Now,  for  the  first  time,  I  meet  Professor  Daniel 
B.  Towner— that  is,  I  meet  him  at  a  distance— this 
great     big    man 
whose     repartee 
convulses   his  pu- 
pils,    and     whose 
sarcasm  is  a  con- 
stant   delight,     as 
well  as  an  efficient 
means  of  quicken- 
ing the  mental  en- 
ergies.    I    think   I 
would  rather  meet 
him   at  a  distance 
just  yet.      It  is  the 
compulsory     sing- 
ing   class    that    is  '''^^'"•■-   "'^■■^'"■-''  '•■    i'*'^vxf,r. 
assembled,    and    wlien    one    hears    the    voices    she 

knows  why  it  is  "compulsory."     There  are  many 

20 


MUSIC    HATH    CHARMS  21 

fine  voices  at  the   Institute,  but  the  other  kind  (my 
kind)  is  not  hard  to  find. 

Of  course  we  never  think  about  the  punctuation 
in  music,  so  when  the  opening-  hymn  is  announced 
we  sing  with  a  great  deal  of  self-reliance: 

'Trembling  I  hang upon  Thy  Word." 

"You  deserve  to  hang,  for  murdering  music  in 
that  way,"  comments  the  jolly-looking  leader  on  the 
platform,  and  then  some  of  us  learn  for  the  first 
time  that  there  are  pauses  in  music,  as  well  as  in 
unmusical  prose,  and  that  we  have  been  guilty  of 
many  crimes  against  hymn-writers  and  the  public 
in  general.  And  it  may  not  be  out  of  place  to  say 
here,  that  while  elocution  is  not  taught  at  the  Insti- 
tute, Mr.  Torrey  impresses  on  the  students  the 
necessity  of  proper  emphasis  and  voice  inflexion  in 
the  reading  of  the  Scriptures,  and  will  frequently  be 
heard  to  say,  when  some  one  distorts  a  passage  from 
the  Word  by  a  reading  peculiarly  his  own : 

"Yes,  but  I  do  not  think  He  said  it  in  that 
way. ' ' 

Then  he  makes  the  correction. 

But  let  us  turn  our  attention  to  Professor  Towner. 

"Will  that  pleasant-faced  young    woman    in    the 


2  2  A    RKPORTER    AT    MOODY  S 

fourth  row  come  up  and  sinp^  a  solo  for  us? — oh, 
don't  look  so  unconcerned!   I  mean  you." 

"But  I  can't  sing,  Mr.  Towner!" 

"Possibly;  but  we  want  to  be  convinced.  Come 
up,  please,  'twill  do  us  good,  and  you  too." 

She  goes.  The  "bassos,"  as  Mr.  Towner  calls 
the  men  on  the  right  side  of  the  room,  laugh  a 
deep  but  sympathetic  laugh,  the  sopranos  emit  a 
clear  "he  he,"  and  the  tenors  and  altos,  together 
with  the  unclassified  ones,  look  very  sober.  I  do 
not  know  why,  unless  possibly  they  have  been  "up" 
themselves,  or  possibly  tenors  and  altos  and  unclas- 
sified singers  have  more  sympathy  than  bassos  and 
sopranos. 

The  girl  from  the  fourth  row  sings  in  about 
four  different  keys  at  once.  Then  she  catches  the 
look  on  Mr.  Towner's  face,  goes  a  little  higher, 
then  gives  it  up,  and  laughs  with  much  more  music 
than  she  sang.  The  whole  room  rings  with  laughter 
now,  and  when  it  ceases  the  singer  is  allowed  to  go. 

"You  did  your  best — but  my!  how  glad  we  are  it 
is  all  over,"  he  says;  and  no  one  enjoys  the  remark 
better  than  the  girl  herself. 

Tradition  has  it  that  one  young  woman  sang  and 
cried  at  the  same  time.     She  came  to  be  taught,  and 


"music  hath  charms"  23 

Mr.  Towner  was  determined  to  teach  her,  even  if 
she  insisted  upon  introducing  new  notes  in  a  minor 
strain.  This  same  girl  said  later  that  she  was 
thankful  for  the  heroic  treatment  she  received. 


The  quick  eye  of  the  teacher  notices  that  several 
men  are  dreaming  instead  of  singing,  so  he  says: 

"We  really  have  some  good  singers  here,  and  they 
are  all  aristocrats.  They  would  not  think  of  singing 
with  the  common  crowd,  and  I  do  not  blame  them. 
Gentlemen,  when  you  want  to  sing  alone,  just  look 
knowingly  at  me,  and  smile  in  that  superior  fashion 
— you  know  how;  then  /will  understand  and  look 
back  at  you  knowingly,  and  presently  I  will  ask  you 
to  walk  up  here,  and  show  us  what  yoii  can  do.  Ah 
(turning  to  the  class),  you  common  people  don't 
know  the  surprise  that  is  in  store  for  you  when  these 
gentlemen  come  up  here  to  sing." 

The  common  people  enjoy  the  joke  immensely, 
and  no  second  warning  is  needed.  The  "aristo- 
crats" sing  as  loudly  as  the  others  during  the  next 
selection,  and  not  a  "knowing"  look  escapes  them. 

Professor  Towner  is  a  great  lover  of  the  dear  old 
hymns,  and  makes  it  a  strong  point  to  have  them 


24  A    REPORTER    AT    MOODY  S 

sung  in  an  intelligible,  reverent  way.  Those  who 
can  sing  "Yankee  Doodle"  may  be  assured  that  if 
they  enter  his  class  and  take  his  humorous  reproofs 
in  the  spirit  that  all  the  students  who  know  him 
take  them,  they  will  some  day  bless  him  for  discov- 
ering their  faults  and  curing  them.  Of  course  there 
is  more  individual  work  done  in  his  special  classes, 
and  it  is  done  in  the  characteristic  way  Professor 
Towner  does  everything.  Our  Institute  nurse  used 
to  say  that  his  classes  were  the  best  tonic  she  could 
recommend  to  her  patients. 


The  class  is  over,  and  as  we  pass  down  the  aisle, 
we  note  that  there  are  several  hundred  men  and 
women  in  the  lecture  room.  They  have  clear, 
bright  intelligent  faces.  Some  have  the  student 
stoop,  but  a  great  many  have  the  athletic  swing  that 
speaks  of  the  country,  the  open  air,  and  clear  fresh 
health.  The  faces  that  tell  of  a  healthy  normal 
pure  life;  the  classroom  results  that  show  thinking, 
reasoning,  unbiased  minds,  open  to  truth ;  the  wit 
and  humor  that  are  disclosed  on  many  unexpected 
occasions;  the  questions  that  prove  that  the  Scrip- 
tures are  searched ;  the  faith  that  kicks  from  under 


"music   hath   charms  25 

it  the  props  ])laccd  by  weak-eyed  scholais,  and 
mounts  to  the  heights  above;  the  vigor  and  earnest- 
ness tliat  accompanies  clear  minds  and  strong  con- 
victions: all  these  make  me  believe  that  when  one 
is  privileged  to  live  among  "Moody  students"  he 
can  be   thankful. 

In  the  meantime,  as  we  are  nearing  the  door,  we 
may  as  well  glance  at  the  Colportage  books  on  the 
table,  and  as  we  need  some  stationery  we  may  as 
well  buy  it  at  the  book  counter.  We  must  hurry, 
because  the  next  lecture  will  commence  in  a  few 
minutes.  We  pass  out  into  the  hall,  peep  into  the 
library,  and  then  step  out  into  Institute  Place. 
There  across  the  street  is  the  headquarters  of  the 
Colportage  Association.  And  now  we  get  back  home 
aofain. 


CHAPTER    IV 

CHICKEN    AND    OTHER    THINGS 

We  have  chicken  and  ice  cream  for  dinner.  Every 
former  student  knows  it  is  Wednesday,  for  that  is 
the  day  when  the  brown  hen  comes  down  from  her 
perch  in  the  family  coop  to  gladden  the  student's 
heart.  I  do  not  mean  that  said  hen  is  always 
brown,  or  always  obedient  in  coming  down,  or  that 
she  arrives  just  in  time  to  be  cooked.  I  merely 
attempt  to  be  poetic,  and  make  the  explanation  for 
the  benefit  of  the  reader  who  takes  everything  liter- 
ally. I  am  especially  cai*eful  about  doing  this, 
because  of  something  Mr.  Torrey  once  said:  A 
student  had  announced  in  the  classroom  that  a 
friend  of  his  "insisted  upon  spiritualizing  every- 
thing, and  would  take  nothing  literally." 

"I  know  there  are  many  who  are  pulling  the  Word 

of  God  apart,  and  will  not  see  its  plain  teaching," 

replied  Mr.  Torrey,  "but  be  careful  that  you  do  not 

become  too  prosaic  and  go  to  the  other  extreme. 

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CHICKEN     AND    OTHER    THINGS  27 

I  knew  a  man  once  who  had  heard  Shakspere's 
statement  about  'books  in  the  nmning  brooks,  ser- 
mons in  stones,  and  g^ood  in  everything^. '  He  puz- 
zled and  puzzled  over  it,  but  being  a  common-sense 
man  he  at  last  decided  that  what  the  poet  meant  was 
that  there  were  sermons  in  books,  stones  in  brooks, 
and  that  everything  was  good  in  its  own  place." 

The  grace  sung  daily  at  the  midday  meal  is  as 
follows : 

"Be  present  at  our  table,  Lord, 
Be  here  and  everywhere  adored, 
These  mercies  bless  and  grant  that  we 
May  feast  in  Paradise  with  Thee." 

Miss  Strong  acts  as  head  of  one  table,  Miss  Carey, 
her  able  assistant,  as  another,  and  Mrs.  Harper,  our 
matron,  as  a  third,  and  Miss  Rosie  as  a  fourth.  The 
older  students  (I  mean  of  course  those  who  have 
been  students  longest;  beware  of  a  too  literal  inter- 
pretation) preside  at  the  other  tables,  and  the 
students  who  have  no  such  responsibilities  wait  on 
each  other  in  turn. 


After  dinner  the  girls  assemble  in  the  parlors  to 
receive  from  Miss  Strong  their  "verse  for  the  day." 


25  A     RKI'ORTKk     AT     MOODV  S 

I  well  renieml:)cr  what  the  one  on  my  first  occasion 
was: 

"All  that  I  have  is  thine." 

It  was  a  solemn  scene  when  the  3^011  ng-  mission- 
aries repeated  it  after  her,  and  then  knelt  down  to 
ask  their  heavenly  Father  to  make  it  a  real  verse 
to  them,  as  they  went  out  into  the  highways  and 
byways  to  carry  the  Gospel  of  their  Redeemer  to 
those  who  knew  it  not.  Miss  Strong-  seeks  to 
impress  the  students  constantly  with  the  importance 
of  their  high  calling,  and  with  the  knowledge  that 
unless  the  Spirit  of  Him  who  raised  Jesus  from -the 
dead  is  dwelling  in  them,  they  can  no  more  carry 
Life  Eternal  to  a  dead  soul  than  they  could  cause  a 
flower  of  the  forest  to  grow  by  preaching  to  it. 


I  was  not  at  the  Institute  a  week  l)efore  I  com- 
menced to  realize  the  greatness  of  D.  L.  Moody's 
work.  No  sentimental  religion  finds  a  berth  there. 
Every  one  who  enters  its  doors  is  taught  that  while 
the  promises  of  God  are  true,  there  are  conditions 
to  be  met  to  make  them  so,  and  that  if  iniquity  is 
regarded  in  the  heart,  the  Lord  does  not  answer 
prayer.     The  "  fresh ies"   know  that  not  every  one 


30  A     K  K.PORTER    AT     MOODY   S 

who  says  "Lord,  Lord"  will  enter  the  kingdom  of 
heaven,  and  that  the  "new  creature,"  made  new 
by  the  blood  of  the  Son  of  God,  is  the  only  being 
that  is  counted  for  time  and  eternity.  They  are 
handed  a  Bible  that  contains  no  "lovely  Hebrew 
legends,"  and  is  tainted  with  no  blight  of  modern 
agnosticism.  One  of  our  bright  girls  once  said  that 
an  agnostic  is  a  person  who  does  not  know  anything, 
and  who  gets  mad  because  people  agree  with  him. 

'Did  you  ever  know  a  man  who  denied  the  truth 
of  the  Scriptures  to  bring  fire  down  from  heaven, 
the  fire  and  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  the  fire  that 
burned  in  the  martyrs'  souls,  the  fire  that  moved 
Paul  to  say  'Woe  is  me  if  I  preach  not  the  Gospel'?  " 
This  was  one  of  the  pertinent  questions  asked  once 
by  Mr.  W.  R.  Newell  (whom  we  will  meet  later  on) 
during  an  exposition  of  i  Kings  i8. 

An  agnostic  is  all  woe  and  no  Gospel.  He  will 
not  take  Christ's  testimony;  no  wonder  if  he  rejects 
Jonah's.  He  thinks  that  much  learning  made  Patil 
mad,  and  much  ignorance  makes  the  unfortunates 
of  to-day,  who  believe  him,  even  madder.  But 
behold  a  paradox  indeed!  Much  learning  makes 
the  doubter  sane,  and  much  credulity  makes  his 
followers  equally  so. 


(:hic:kex   and  othrf.  things  31 

"Is  Mr.  So-and-so  sound?"  asked  a  student  of  Mr. 
Torrey  one  day,  in  the  lecture  room. 

"He  is  all  sound,"  replied  our  teacher;  and 
knowing  the  "scientist"  we  believed  it. 

No  wonder  that  God  blessed  you,  dear,  honest, 
homespun  D wight  L.  ]\loody.  In  this  and  other 
lands  your  name  will  be  loved  and  your  influence  felt 
when  the  books  of  death  and  doubt  and  pessimism 
will  have  disappeared. 


Prompt  as  the  stroke  of  6  o'clock,  so  is  the  even- 
ing tea-bell.  If  the  bells  were  a  minute  late,  Mrs. 
Harper's  business  infallibility  would  be  a  dead 
doctrine ;  but  so  far  it  is  very  much  alive. 

At  my  table  sit  nine  of  the  cleverest  young 
women  (of  course  I  am  included  in  the  number) 
that  ever  deigned  to  live  among  ordinary  people. 
We  argue  the  most  abstruse  questions,  making 
many  hair-splitting  distinctions  ;  and  indeed  why  we 
ever  attend  the  lectures  when  we  know  so  much,  is 
a  question  that  perplexes  us  all.  But  strange  to  say 
though  we  are  very  pompous  at  the  table  we  shrink 
into  small  places  quite  easily  in  the  lecture  room. 
We  differ  on   the   question  of  woman   suffrage,    we 


32  A    REPORT KR    AT    MOODY  S 

have  varied  opinions  about  the  war  m  the  Philip- 
pines, we  are  even  divided  on  the  question  of  the 
Biblical  supremacy  of  man;  but  when  it  comes  to 
the  heart  of  the  question:  "Is  woman  not  as  good 
as  man?"  the  imiversal  answer  is guess  it! 

Whatever  our  decision  was  we  stood  together  in 
it,  and  we  do  still. 

The  question  of  the  usage  of  the  word  "obey"  in 
the  marriage  ceremony  came  up  once,  and  caused 
much  serious  reflection  and  a  great  deal  of  argu- 
ment, but  it  was  finally  and  irrevocably  settled  by  a 
student  who  said  in  a  serio-comic  voice  that  was 
meant  to  impress,  and  certainly  did  : 

"Girls,  'tis  manners  to  wait  to  be  asked." 

There  was  at  least  one  "new  woman"  at  our 
table,  "new"  in  the  sense  that  she  believed  it  was 
not  a  sin  of  woman  to  be  "strong  minded,"  or  a 
virtue  to  be  weak  minded.  She  believed  with  a 
very  strong  belief  that  if  a  woman  was  given  brains 
she  really  ought  to  use  them,  and  that  the  posses- 
sion of  executive  ability  did  not  mean  "mannish- 
ness. "  She  even  had  temerity  enough  to  assert 
that  some  women  knew  more  than  some  men,  and 
might  teach  members  of  the  stronger  sex  occasion- 
ally.    For  a  woman  to  learn  from  her  husband  now- 


CHICKr.N     AND    OTHER     THINGS  33 

adays  is  good  doctrine  too,  she  said,  if  she  has  one, 
and  if  he  knows  more  about  the  Word  than  she 
does;  but  when  he  does  not,  as  it  sometimes  hap- 
pens,— well,  that  is  a  puzzler.  In  defense  of  this 
"new  woman"  let  we  add  that  I  never  met  a  more 
lovable  womanly  woman,  or  one  more  open  to 
reason  or  more  given  to  fairness.  She  was  con- 
stantly doing  good,  defending  this  one  or  that,  and 
putting  the  best  possible  construction  on  everything 
about  which  there  Avas  a  doubt.  And  there  were 
many  of  her  kind  at  the  Institute — lovable,  true, 
noble  women,  obedient  to  God  and  His  teaching, 
but  seeking  the  truth  with  the  free  unfettered 
minds  that  the  Holy  Spirit  imparts.  The  Moody 
Institute  drags  no  one  into  mental  slavery,  and  if 
there  is  one  fad  it  is  this:  "See  it  for  yourself,  and 
think  independently  of  every  one  but  God." 


CHAPTER   V 

"rightly  dividing  the  word" 
I  had  heard  of  the  Rev.  Reuben  Archer  Torrey 
so  often,  and  had  a  passing  acquaintance  with  him 
for  so  long  through  his  books,  that  I  felt  as  if  I  was 
looking  into  a  friend's  face  when  I  met  him  in  the 
lecture  room.  I  wish  that  this  book  might  tell  a 
little  of  the  gratitude  I  feel  for  the  privilege  of 
being  permitted  to  enjoy  his  sound  teaching,  his 
sublime  faith,  clear  unbiased  mind  and  vigorous 
Christian  strength.  Mr.  Torrey  is  a  scholar  who 
followed  the  leopard  into  his  lair  in  Germany,  and 
so  knows  just  what  his  spots  are,  and  what  caused 
them.  Tackle  him  on  Greek,  Hebrew  or  some 
knotty  metaphysical  problem,  then  ask  him  to  pray 
with  you;  and  if  he  has  taken  any  cf  the  conceit  out 
of  you,  because  of  his  knowledge  of  books,  you  will 
readily  forgive  him  and  love  him  for  his  knowledge 
of  and  devotion  to  TJic  Book. 

I  will  only  attempt  to  give  a  few  points  from  Mr. 
34 


RIGHTLV     I)I\lI)IN(i     THI'L    WORD 


35 


Torrey's  teachings  here,  but  they  will  serve  to  show 
his  crisp,  unadorned  style  of  presenting-  the  truth. 

Question:  What  does  it  mean,  when  it  says  in  Gen. 
1:27,    "God    created    man    in     His    own    image"? 

Answer:  It  is  told  in  the  following  passages:  Col. 
3:10,  "And  have  put  on  the  new  man,  which  is 
renewed  in  knowledge  after  the  image  of  Him  that 
created  him."  Eph.  4:23,  24,  "And  be  renewed  in 
the  spirit  of  your  mind;  and  that  ye  put  on  the  new 
man,  which  after  God  is  created  in  righteousness 
and  true  holiness."  Col.  1:15,  "Who  is  the  image 
of  the  invisible  God,  the  first  born  of  every  crea- 
ture" (Compare  i  Tim.  1:17).  "The  words  image 
and  likeness,  evidently  do  not  refer  to  visible  or 
bodily  likeness,  but  to  intellectual  and  moral  like- 
ness— likeness  in  knowledge,  righteousness,  holi- 
ness and  truth." 

Agreeing  that  spirit  may  be  and  has  been  mani- 
fested in  visible  form,  Mr.  Torrey  brings  up  the 
question  whether  there  is  a  contradiction  between 
Exodus  24:9,10,  where  it  is  said,  "They  saw  the  God 
of  Israel,"  and  Jno  1:18,  where  the  statement  is 
made  that  "No  man  has  seen  God  at  any  time." 
His  answer  is: 

"None  whatever.      To  illustrate:  A  man  mav  see 


36  A    REPORTER    AT    IMOODY's 

the  reflection  of  his  face  in  a  glass.  It  would  be 
true  for  the  man  to  say,  'I  saw  my  face,'  and  also 
true  to  say,  'I  never  saw  my  face.'  So  men  have 
seen  a  manifestation  of  God,  and  it  is  perfectly  true 
to  say  those  men  saw  God.  No  man  ever  saw  God 
as  He  is  in  His  invisible  essence,  and  so  it  is  perfectly 
true  to  say,  'No  man  hath  seen  God  at  any  time.'  " 
To  prove  the  unity  of  God,  Mr.  Torrey  takes  such 
texts  as  Deut.  4 :  35  ;  Deut.  6:4;  Is.  43  :  10 ;  Is.  44 :  6  ; 
Is.  45  :  5  ;  I  Tim.  2:5;  Mark  10 :  18 ;  and  INIark  12:29. 
He  teaches  that  while  "the  Lord  our  God  is  one 
Lord,  and  there  is  no  God  beside  Him,"  the  word 
translated  "one"  in  these  passages  denotes  a  com- 
pound unity,  as  in  Gen.  2:24:  "Therefore  shall  a 
man  leave  his  father  and  his  mother,  and  shall 
cleave  unto  his  wife:  and  they  shall  be  one  flesh." 
See  also  Gen.  11:6  ("And  the  Lord  said.  Behold  the 
people  is  one");  i  Cor.  3:6-8;  i  Cor.  12:13;  Com- 
pare Jno.  17:  22,  23;  Gal.  3:  28.  To  show  the  Trin- 
ity  in  the  Godhead,  Mr.  Torrey  proves  that  the  Old 
Testament  word  most  frequently  used  for  God  is 
plural  in  form  (see  Gen.  1:26:  Gen.  11  :;  ;  Gen. 
3:22;  and  Is.  6:8).  In  Zech.  2:10,  11  note  how  the 
Lord  (Jehovah)  speaks  of  Himself  as  being  sent  by 
the  Lord  (Jehovah)  of  Hosts. 


^8  A     REPORTER     AT    MOODY 'S 

Of  course  the  question  arises  here:  "How  can 
God  be  tliree  and  one  at  the  same  time?"  Mr. 
Torrey  says:  "He  cannot  be  three  and  one  in  thfe 
same  sense.  A  perfectly  satisfactory  answer  to  this 
question  is  manifestly  impossible  from  tlie  very 
nature  of  the  case;  because  God  is  spirit,  and  num- 
bers belong-  primarily  to  the  physical  world — and 
difficulty  must  arise  when  we  attempt  to  conceive 
spiritual  being-  in  the  forms  of  physical  thought." 

I  was  exceedingly  thankful  to  have  answered  the 
question  that  follows,  because  it  was  one  that  had 
perplexed  me  often.  I  put  the  question  in  my  own 
form : 

"If  God  is  an  infinitely  wise  God,  how  could  He 
repent  of  things  He  intended  to  do,  as  in  Jonah 
3:10?" 

Answer:  "God  remained  the  same  in  character, 
infinitely  hating  sin,  and  in  His  purpose  to  visit  sin 
with  judgment;  but  as  Nineveh  changed  in  its 
attitude  toward  sin,  God  necessarily  eJianged  in  His 
attitude  toivard  Nineveh.  If  God  remains  the  same, 
if  His  attitude  toward  sin  and  unrighteousness  is 
unchanging,  then  must  His  dealings  with  men 
change  as  they  turn  from  sin  to  repentance." 

An   interesting  proposition,  and   one   that   called 


"rightly  dividing  the  word  39 

forth  a  great  many  questions  was  this:  "God  is 
everywhere.  He  is  in  all  parts  of  the  universe  and 
near  each  individual.  In  Him  each  individual  lives 
and  moves  and  has  his  being  (Ps.  139:7-10;  Jer. 
23:  23,  24;  Acts  17:  24-28;   Is.  57:  15)." 

Student:   "Mr.  Torrey,  is  that  not  pantheism?" 

Answer:  "No,  it  is  not.  I  am  in  this  room,  but 
this  room  is  not  me.  Got!  is  in  everything,  but 
everything  is  not  God.  Then  God  is  not  every- 
where in  the  same  sense,  by  any  means,  (see  J  no. 
14:28;  Jno.  20:17;  Eph.  1:20;  Rev.  21:2,  3,  10, 
22,  23;  and  Rev.  22:  i,  3),  but  heaven  is  the  place 
where,  at  the  present  time,  the  presence. and  glory 
of  God  is  especially  manifested.  Pantheism  is 
refuted  in  the  first  verse  of  the  Bible:  'In  the 
beginning  God  created  the  heaven  and  the  earth.' 

A  student  asks  Mr,  Torrey  whether  he  thinks  a 
man  who  has  strictly  evangelical  truths  to  preach, 
but  who  wants  to  emphasize  some  especial  ones  that 
are  neglected  by  the  church,  ought  to  found  a  new 
church.  "If  he  does,"  Mr.  Torrey  replies  grimly, 
"he  will  be  apt  to  get  in  a  hole  and  pull  the  hole  in 
after  him." 

With  our  teacher  we  see  anew  "the  power  of  God 
unto  salvation,"  the  charm  of    the    Biblical  narra- 


40  A    REPORTER    AT    MOODY  S 

tives,  the  streni^th  and  brevity  of  its  wonderful 
philosophy,  and  with  reverent  hearts  and  bated 
breath  we  are  ready  to  say,  "And  the  Word  was 
made  flesh,  and  dwelt  amon^-  us." 

Chicago  is  not  the  most  beautiful  place  to  live  in, 
but  when  one  leaves  the  lecture  room  and  walks 
with  his  God,  he  sees  what  other  men  do  not  see — 
he  sees  the  trees  in  the  city  parks  clapping  their 
hands  for  very  joy;  he  sees  the  water  in  pond  and 
lake  smiling,  not  at  the  kiss  of  the  sun,  but  at  the 
remembrance  of  the  Spirit  of  God  who  long  ago 
moved  upon  the  face  of  the  waters,  and  at  the  pres- 
ence of  the  vSun  of  Righteousness;  and  he  knows 
that  every  bush  in  the  autumn  day  is  aflame  with 
God. 


CHAPTER   VI 

HOW    ONE    DAY    WAS    SPENT 

The  students  are  all  rushing  to  and  fro  preparing- 
to  go  out  to  their  separate  "parishes,"  and  I  get  my 
Bible  and  take  my  departure  on  my  first  week-day 
assignment — a  mother's  meeting  at  Moseh^  Chapel, 
Calumet  Avenue  and  Twenty-fifth  Street.  I  go 
with  a  heart  that  is  crying  to  God  for  the  salvation 
of  souls,  and  on  this  first  day  I  see  two  women 
accept  Jesus  Christ  as  their  Savior. 

I  am  so  happy  over  it  that  I  can  scarcely  restrain 
the  tears  which  I  used  to  maintain  at  one  time  were 
a  sign  of  unpardonable  weakness.  But  I  am  feeling 
too  joyful  to  keep  up  even  an  appearance  of 
stolid  dignity  and  when  I  see  the  glad  light  on  the 
faces  of  those  around  me,  1  forget  everything  but 
my  Savior's  joy,  and — I  am  a  child  again.  Blessed, 
blessed  tears  of  joy,  tears  that  relieve  the  mind  and 
speak  of  fresh  unspoiled  hearts — ah,  we  ought  never 
to  be  ashamed  of  theml  They  break  down  heart 
barriers  quicker  than  any  preaching  or  sermonizing. 

41 


42  A    REPORTER    AT     MOODY  S 

*  -X-  #  -Sf  7f 

After  the  meeting  I  call  on  a  sick  child.  Poor 
wee  bairnie,  she  is  only  eight  years  old,  and  as  I 
stroke  her  brown  curls  and  look  into  her  deep  brown 
eyes,  I  see  there  the  light  of  another  world,  and  I 
know  that  mamma's  girl  will  soon  be  with  her  lov- 
ing Savior — the  Savior  who  has  something  better 
for  every  one  of  us  than  a  mere  extension  of  life  on 
earth.  Her  mother  is  a  Christian,  and  the  taking 
of  her  little  one  from  her  is  hard,  but  she  is  bless- 
edly resigned.  She  knows  that  all  things  work 
together  for  good  to  them  that  love  God.  He 
knows  best — He  doeth  all  things  well;  and  so  we 
just  ask  our  Savior  to  keep  the  little  one  from  pain 
(she  does  not  suffer  now),  and  take  her  "home" 
soon.  It  is  not  easy  to  see  an  adult  endure  pain, 
but  the  woman  who  can  see  a  little  child  suffering 
without  wanting  to  fold  the  little  lamb  to  her  heart 
and  bear  the  pain  instead,  has  something  left  out  of 
her  nature. 

The  little  girl  likes  stories,  and  she  is  told  some. 
Then  she  talks  wisely  about  Jesus.  He  has  surely 
taught  her  Himself,  and  she  in  turn  teaches  me.  I 
go  away  feeling  as  if  a  benediction  follows  me  from 
that  girlie's  bed;  and   I  thank  God  for  the  ministry 


HOW    ONE    DAY    WAS    SPENT  43 

to  which  the  Institute  inspires  its  students.  Surely 
every  student  who  blesses  and  cheers  and  g-oes 
among-  the  people  "as  one  that  serveth,"  finds 
reflected  sunshine  finding  its  way  back  to  his  or  her 
own  life,  and  glorifying  it. 


There  are  clever  men  in  Chicago,  and  one  puts 
this  question,  to  me:  "Since  God  knew  all  that 
would  happen,  and  since  He  knew  that  man  would 
fall,  and  since  man  did  fall  and  the  world  is  full  of 
sin,  don't  you  think  Mr.  Moody  is  foolish  in  trying 
to  do  a  work  God  failed  at?" 

"God  did  not  fail,"  I  reply,  "and  Mr.  Moody  is 
proving  that  He  did  not." 

"But  creation  is  a  failure,"  he  says,  "and  the- 
devil  is  triumphant." 

"Do  you  see  that  house  over  there,"  I  ask  him 
(pointing  to  a  house  in  the  course  of  erection)  ;  "tell 
me,  is  that  house  a  failure? — is  the  man  who  planned 
it  a  fool?" 

"Oh,  I  don't  know." 

"Of  course  not.  You  would  wait  until  it  is  fin- 
ished, would  you  not?" 

"Yes." 


44  ^   rf.ih)RTi:r   at   moodv  s 

"Well,  God's  work  is  not  yet  complete.  The 
devil  is  not  triumphant.  He  received  a  wound  on 
the  resurrection  morn  that  he  will  never  g-et  over. 
Read  the  book  of  Revelation,  and  the  Bible's  teach- 
m<r  on  Christ's  vSecond  Coming-,  and  you  will  see  the 
end  of  Satan  and  the  triumph  of  God." 

"Then  why  does  God  not  destroy  the  devil  now?" 

"I  don't  know.  Why  does  the  United  States  not 
chloroform  (as  some  one  suggests)  every  criminal 
who  incites  others  to  crime?  Satan  is  being  used 
now  to  work  out  God's  plans,  as  in  the  case  of 
Joseph',  who  was  sold  as  a  slave  by  his  devil-inspired 
brothers,  but  was  made  a  ruler  of  Egypt,  for  'God 
meant  it  unto  him  for  good.'  " 

Now  my  questioner  is  thinking,  and  we  talk  about 
the  vSavior.  He  promises  to  go  to  hear  Mr.  Torrey 
preach,  and  I  turn  my  steps  homewards. 


I  meet  one  of  my  Sabbath-school  boys  and  ask 
him  what  the  next  lesson  is  about. 

"The  Psalms,"  he  answers  glibly  enough. 

"And  what  are  they?" 

"They — w'y,  she  was  de  woman  dat  looked  back, 
an'  was  made  a  pillar  o'  salt." 


now    ONE    UAV     WAS    SPKNT  45 

Rather  discouraoing-  outlook  here,  but  I  succeed  in 
making-  hiiu  understand  before  I  oro  away,  and  I 
mentally  remark  that  I  am  o^lad  that  we  have 
instruction  in  the  matter  of  children's  classes  and 
children's  work. 


One  of  our  girls,  to  whom  I  related  my  experi- 
ence with  this  little  boy,  told  me  about  another 
fellow  who  was  asked  by  his  mother,  after  returning 
from  Sabbath-school,  what  new  hymn  he  had 
learned. 

"Oh,"  he  answered,  "something  about  a  conse- 
crated cross-eyed  bear." 

It  seems  that  his  teacher  had  taught  her  class  to 
sing  "The  Consecrated  Cross  I  Bear,"  but  never 
stopped  to  explain  the  meaning  of  the  words. 
Another  girl  told  of  a  child  who  was  talking  in  a 
clever  fashion  about  the  foe  of  her  soul. 

"Who  is  the  foe  of  your  soul?"  asked  the  student. 

The  child  did  not  know,  but  another  precocious 
girl  said : 

"Foe,  foe, — oh,  I  know, — Spain!" 

TS-  Vf  -TV-  4{-  -sf 

Well,   we  are  all  back  at  the   dear   old   Institute 


46  A    RKPORTF.R    AT     MOODY's 

again,  tired  after  a  day  of  toil,  but  g-lad  because  we 
have  touched  other  lives  and  told  the  old,  old  story- 
over  ag-ain. 

Now  we  are  ready  for  tea.  After  our  cups  are 
emptied  and  oar  chatting  is  over,  we  draw  our 
chairs  back  to  the  wall  and  range  ourselves  com- 
fortably around  the  room  while  one  of  our  number 
gives  the  customary  evening  Bible  talk.  Some  of 
the  girls  have  fine  thoughts  and  are  deeply  taught, 
not  only  on  doctrinal  truth,  but  in  the  things  of  the 
Spirit,  but  they  have  scarcely  ever  (with  but  few 
exceptions)  spoken  in  public,  and  so  are  more  or 
less  afflicted  with  "stage  fright."  After  a  time  this 
wears  away,  and  it  is  pleasant  to  see  how  these 
evening  gatherings  develop  the  power  of  original 
thinking,  personal  application  of  truth  and  freedom 
of  expression.  None  of  us  are  critics,  or  we 
become  less  so  when  our  own  turn  to  speak  comes 
around.  The  girls  who  have  domestic  work  to  do, 
now  go  to  the  kitchen,  and  the  others  gather  in 
groups  in  the  parlor  and  library  to  chat  for  awhile 
before  resuming  their  studies.  Twelve  hours  of 
study  at  the  very  least  are  supposed  to  be  under- 
taken every  week  by  the  student,  and  when  five 
"appointments"  are  added,  besides  some   domestic 


MISvS  E.  S.  STRONG. 


48  A     REPORTER    AT    MOODY 's 

work  and  the  regular  lectures,  it  makes  it  a 
busy  week  indeed,  and  there  is  little  time  for 
loiterino:. 

Appointments  include  street  visitation,  leading- 
religious  meetings,  teaching  in  Sunday-school,  act- 
ing as  usher  at  some  religious  gathering,  etc.  The 
student  needs  rugged  health  to  accomplish  the 
work.  A  nurse,  who  is  also  a  student,  resides  at 
the  Institute,  giving  professional  help  and  advice  to 
those  in  need  of  both. 

One  of  our  students  once  appointed  herself  to  be 
"house-physician."  She  proved  that  she  had 
studied  medicine  by  saying  that  her  mother  once 
handed  her  some  castor  oil  and  she  studied  it  for  a 
very  long  time  before  she  took  it.  Her  prescrip- 
tions were  "green  fields,  fresh  air,  eggs,  milk,  but- 
ter, oysters,  lots  of  sleep  and  some  light  cheery 
reading  until  the  tired  feeling  passes." 

A  witty  but  tired  student  said  to  her,  after  she 
had  given  the  usual  prescription: 

"Well,  doctor,  you  ought  to  give  me  the  prescrip- 
tion, not  tell  it  to  me." 

Our  physican  thereupon  handed  her  a  map  of  New 
Jersey,  saying: 

"You  will  find  the  green  field  on  the  map.     There 


HOW    ONK    DAY    WAS    SPENT 


49 


is  a  restaurant  and  grocery  around  the  corner  where 
you  can  get  the  other  ingredients." 

There  is  a  sw^eet,  home  atmosphere  about  the 
Woman's  Department  that  I  puzzled  for  a  long  time 
over. 

"In  such  a  large  home,"  I  asked  myself,  "h(nv 
can  the  institutional  element  be  kept  out  as  success- 
fully as  it  is?" 

My  question  was  answered  by  a  more  observant 
student  who  said : 

"Why,  it  is  Miss  Strong." 

And  is  it  not  true  that  a  person  is  always  behind 
a  principle,  a  philosophy,  or  a  truth?  Yes,  it  was 
^liss  Strong,  supplemented  by  Mrs.  Harper,  and 
Miss  Carey. 

Miss  Emily  S.  Strong  is  a  woman  of  good  birth 
and  breeding,  culture  and  refinement,  but  above 
and  over  all  these,  one  sees  the  evidences  of  the 
new  birth  that  brought  to  her  the  Christian  gentle- 
ness and  the  ethical  strength  that  is  breathed  on  the 
Mount  where  that  one  great  vSermon  was  preached. 
She  influences  every  life  she  touches,  and  she  is  so 
blissfully  unconscious  of  her  own  work  and  worth, 
that  her  influence  grows  stronger  all  the  time. 
There  is  a  gentle  dignity  about  her  that  she  carries 


50  A    REPORTER    AT    MOODY  S 

even  into  the  reading  of  Mark  Twain's  absurdities 
(for  when  Christian  biography  and  periodicals  have 
been  attended  to,  she  entertains  the  girls  with  lead- 
ings from  the  current  periodicals),  and  this  very- 
element  always  brings  out  into  bolder  relief  what 
she  wants  to  emphasize.  "Evenly-balanced,  cool, 
dignified,  thoughtful,"  one  would  say,  after  seeing 
her  a  few  times;  but,  if  one  was  present  when  she 
talked  about  her  Savior  and  ours,  and  sought  to 
lead  "her  girls"  into  the  fullness  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
and  noted  the  tremor  in  the  voice  and  the  love, 
womanly,  tender  love,  making  that  quiet  face  beam, 
one  would  long,  as  others  often  do,  to  get  nearer  to 
the  great  heart  they  know  is  there. 

Miss  Carey,  it  seems  to  me,  always  points  in  her 
teaching  to  grand,  noble  ideals,  and  Miss  Strong 
tells  the  new  comer  what  to  do  when  she  enters  the 
gates  where  these  ideals  dwell.  Miss  Carey  is  an 
inspiration  to  many,  many  lives  at  the  Institute,  and 
if  her  strong  personality,  beaming  through  her 
friendl}^  face,  does  not  lift  many  a  weak  soul  to  a 
higher  level  than  its  own,  then  no  woman  ever 
did. 

Mrs.  Harper,  being  a  mother  herself,  has  the 
mother  qualities,  and  no  one  ever  went  to  her  with- 


HOW     ONK    DAY     WAS    SPENT  5I 

out  finding  llierc  the  mother  heart  and  the  mother 
welcome. 

Let  no  prospective  student  ever  fear  that  lier  life 
will  be  lonely  and  loveless  at  the  Institute.  There 
is  too  much  of  God  there  to  have  such  a  fate  await- 
ing her. 


CHAPTER  VII 

TOUCHING    HUiMAN    SOULS 

Reports  of  personal  work  are  given  by  the  stu- 
dents every  Tuesday  morning-  at  ii  o'clock,  and 
before  letting  the  reader  peep  in  at  the  men  and 
women  ready  to  report  on  their  work  of  soul-saving, 
let  me  give  a  bit  of  personal  reminiscence. 

I  called  on  a  German  family  one  day,  and  found 
the  man  of  the  house  up  in  arms  (not  Krag-Jorgen- 
sen  or  Springfield)  on  the  subject  of  the  Boer- 
English  war.  He  said  the  British  were  thieves  and 
robbers  and  a  lot  of  other  things,  while  the  Boers 
were  angels  and  a  lot  of  other  things  also.  He  tried 
to  get  my  views,  but  I  proved  myself  to  be  an  apt 
diplomat  and  kept  my  own  counsel,  though  I  freely 
discussed  the  matter  with  him  in  a  friendly  way.  I 
knew  that  this  was  an  unusual  chance  to  be  friendly 
with  the  family,  and  would  open  the  way  for  my 
coming  again,  and  I  had  sense  enough  to  see  that 
attempting  to  talk  on  religious  matters  now  would 

52 


TOUCHIXC;    HUMAN    SOULS 


53 


only  injure  my  purpose,  hut  my  Cieiman  friend, 
knowing-  I  was  a  Christian,  said: 

"Hu,  hul  an'  dey  say  dat  Queen  Victoria  was  a 
Christian  yet.  She  is  a  fine  vun,  I  don't  tink.  A^en 
I  vas  a  Christian  like  she  (here  he  rose  up  and 
shook  his  fist  at  my  passive  self),  I  vould  say  to  my 
beoples:  'Ven  you  shocd  dese  harmless  Boers  any 
longer  I  gif  up  de  Queen  pizzness.  I'm  de  boss — 
oder  you  be.  You  shdop  now  I'  Vouldn't  dat  be  de 
vay  to  talk  nicht  var?" 

I  chokingly  said  that  would  be  a  very  laudable 
way  to  talk,  but  that  possibly  there  were  extenua- 
ting circumstances.  But  he  could  not  see  anything 
but  Queen  Victoria  slaughtering  the  Boers.  I  had 
a  sly  notion  that  he  did  not  know  the  meauing  of 
extenuating  circumstances.  I  have  always  found  it 
a  good  way  to  silence  people  by  using  or  inventing 
the  strangest  words  possible.  Many  a  time  after- 
wards he  talked  with  me  about  God.  He  and  his 
wife  know  the  Lord  Jesus  as  their  Savior,  and  in 
that  humble  German  home  I  often  found  heart  com- 
fort and  rest.  After  all,  one  may  talk  about  war  if 
it  bi*ing"s  peace. 

It  is  not  a  bad  plan  for  a  Christian  worker  to  be 
well-informed  about  the  topics  of  the  day  that  inter- 


54  A    REPORTER    AT    MOODY  S 

est  his  or  her  nci^^^hbor.      You  get  a  person  to  listen 
to  you  if  you  know  how  to  listen  to  him. 


Mr.  Torrey  has  charge  of  the  personal  work  class 
to-day,  and  he  gives  the  students  a  chance  to  tell 
what  Scripture  texts  they  would  use  with  uncon- 
verted people. 

For  the  one  who  says:  "I  honestly  want  to  believe 
but  cannot,"  John  7:  17,  R.  V.  ("If  any  man 
willeth  to  do  His  will,  he  shall  know  of  the  teach- 
ing, whether  it  is  of  God  or  whether  1  speak  from 
myself"),  is  given.  Let  the  person  be  only  willing 
to  be  made  willing,  and  God  will  do  the  rest.  Of 
course  the  ever-blessed  and  familiar  John  3:  16  is 
given,  as  is  also  John  10:9  ("I  am  the  door;  by  me 
if  any  man  enter  in  he  shall  be  saved"),  and  other 
texts  that  welcome  the  sinner  to  a  loving  Savior 
after  they  have  condemned  him  for  his  sin. 

Mr.  Torrey  is  a  veritable  physician  of  souls,  and 
if  any  student  leaves  the  Institute  with  the  idea  that 
he  must  do  hurried,  hasty,  quack  work  "for  the 
night  is  coming,"  he  has  misinterpreted  all  the 
teaching  he  received. 

To-day  he  takes  Isaiah   53:6   and  55:  7.      "All  we 


56  A    RKPORTKK     AT    MOODY  S 

like  sheep  have   <4one  astray"  he  quotes,  and   then 
he  asks: 

"Who?" 

"All,"  is  the  answer. 

"How  have  we  j^one  astray? — by  committino^  great 
sins  and  becoming  very  low?" 

"No;  by  turning  every  one  to  his  own  way." 

"Well  (to  supposed  sinner),  have  you  turned  to 
your  own  way?" 

"Oh,  I  have  never  done  any  great  harm." 

"Possibly,  but  have  you  turned  to  your  own, 
rather  than  the  Lord's,  way?" 

"Yes,  1  suppose  I  have." 

"Very  well,  now  you  must  forsake  your  way,  and 
even  your  thoughts,  and  return  unto  the  Lord. 
You  are  among  the  wicked  and  unrighteous  because 
you  have  chosoi  the  way  of  the  astray  sheep.  But 
listen:  God  will  abundantly  pardon  you  now  that 
you  have  turned  to  Kim,  for  'the  Lord  hath  laid  on 
Him  the  iniquity  of  us  all.'  " 

■^'Oh,  but  I  am  too  bad  to  be  saved,"  some  one 
may  say,  "and  I  really  do  not  feel  that  God  has 
forgiven  me." 

"The  blackest  sin  you  can  commit  is  not  to 
believe  God — to  tell  your  Creator  and  Savior  that 


TOUCHING     HUMAN    SOULS  57 

He  lies.  There  is  a  faLse  modesty  that  keeps  people 
out  of  heaven  and  happiness  because  they  want  to 
be  so  polite  and  thoug^litful  as  to  re-adjust  thinii's  for 
God.  He  has  g"iv'en  His  word  that  if  you  do  your 
part  He  will  do  His.  He  knows  that  you  are  not 
worthy  of  His  free  grace,  but  at  least  you  can  prove 
that  you  are  not  miworthy  enough  to  doubt  His 
Word." 

Over  and  over,  ^Ir.  Torrey  repeats  the  Scripture 
texts  and  their  arguments,  and  he  impresses  the 
fact  upon  the  students  that  clearness  and  simplicity 
are  two  of  the  most  necessary  implements  for  a 
* '  workman   approved. ' ' 

"Never  assume  that  your  audience  understands 
things,"  he  says;  "explain  everything,  and  if  you 
have  not  learned  to  be  simple,  become  so  by  talking 
to  children.  Get  the  Scripture  texts  classified  in 
your  minds  in  an  orderly  way,  so  that  you  will  know 
just  what  cabinet  holds  the  especial  gem  you  want 
at  the  moment  vou  need  it." 


At  this  particular  report  meeting  one  of  the  men 
students  tells  a  thrilling  story  of  the  conversion  of 
a  woman  whose  case  was  one  of  demoniac  possession 


58  A    REPORTER    AT    IMOODy's 

if  ever  there  was  one.  She  had  been  a  Christian  at 
one  time,  but  had  deliberately  disobeyed  God  in  a 
matter  she  had  sure  guidance  about.  Thereafter 
she  lost  the  peace  of  God,  and  after  a  time  her  mind 
became  affected;  so  much  so  that  she  planned  to 
murder-  her  husband  and  children.  Her  nature 
seemed  to  undergo  a  violent  change,  and  she  hated 
everbody,  even  her  own  child,  declaring  that  she 
knew  she  was  eternally  lost,  and  did  not  want  to 
hear  about  God.  She  tried  to  drive  the  young  mis- 
sionary from  her  house,  but  he  would  not  go,  and 
after  using  the  Word  with  her  and  praying  to  God 
for  her  with  the  earnestness  and  belief  of  a  faith 
which  had  Christ  for  its  author  and  finisher,  she  was 
brought  back  to  God,  and  restored  to  her  right 
mind. 

A  young  woman  told  in  a  simple,  touching  way 
of  an  actress  whom  she  had  led  to  Jesus,  and  of  a 
drunkard's  home  where  she  had  sung  the  songs  of 
the  Kingdom,  and  brought  the  light  of  the  Gospel. 
Others  told  of  their  weekly  labors  among  the  uncon- 
verted. They  learned  from  the  failures  and  suc- 
cesses of  one  another,  and  a  new  belief  in  the 
Almightiness  of  El-Shaddai  ("the  God  who  is 
enough")   grew  within  the  hearts  of  each   student 


TOUCHING     HUMAN    SOULS  59 

as  they  listened,  and  in  one  common  faith  their 
souls  became  welded  tooether. 

*  -x-  *  •«■  * 

Every  Saturday  night  both  the  men's  and  women'G 
departments  have  oratherings  for  prayer  and  testi- 
mony as  to  personal  work  and  spiritual  progress. 
At  these  meetings  former  students  are  remembered 
in  loving  prayer;  their  latest  letters  are  read  and 
news  of  their  work  discussed.  Students  feel  their 
hearts  enlarged  by  the  knowledge  that  men  and 
women  bound  to  them  by  ties  of  Christ-kinship, 
similar  interests  and  Institute  fellowship,  need  and 
long  for  their  prayers  and  friendship. 

Anecdotes  of  personal  work,  some  full  of  pathos 
and  sadness,  others  of  droll  happenings  and  peculiar 
people,  are  told  in  the  family  circles  each  week. 
And  hearts  swell  at  times  with  praise  and  thanks- 
giving, because  we  see  the  workings  of  the  Lord. 

I  went  with  Miss  H one  Sunday  morning  to 

the  Pacific  Garden  Mission,  and  looked  into  faces 
that  were  once  (and  not  so  long  ago)  blotted  by 
the  mark  of  the  beast,  now  glowing  and  glistening 
as  she  told  them  of  the  power  of  Jesus  and  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  as  revealed  in  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles. 


6o  A    RKPOKTER    AT    MOODY   S 

A  drunken  man  broke  the  glass  door  during  the 
lesson,  but  not  a  member  of  the  class  moved.  They 
were  used  to  such  accidents  and  they  were  not  used 
to  these  things  they  were  hearing  about;  nothing 
could  divert  their  attention.  Ah,  it  was  good  to 
hear  them  sing — "Since  I  found  my  Savior."  But 
it  will  be  better  still  when  we  all  sing  that  "new 
song"  that  thrilled  St.  John's  soul  in  the  Isle  of 
Patmos.      May  we  be  found  worthy 


CHAPTER    VIIT 

AP.OUT    THE  "white    FIELDS*' 

Every  Fricl;iy  murnin^i;-  at  9  o'clock  the  students 
gather  in  the  lecture  room  for  the  sessions  of  the 
Missionary  vStudy  and  Prayer  Union  of  the  Bible 
Institute.  ^Ir.  W.  R.  Newell,  a  former  student  and 
now  assistant  superintendent,  takes  deep  interest  in 
these  meetings,  and  the  fire  and  energy  of  his  great 
spirit  always  finds  its  way  into  the  hearts  of  those 
he  addresses.  The  testimony  of  one  of  our  girls, 
who  is  preparing  for  Africa  is  an  eloquent  tribute  to 
his  worth:  "Mr.  Newell,"  she  said,  "has  the  cour- 
age of  his  convictions.  He  says  what  he  thinks, 
even  if  he  does  not  always  think  along  conventional 
lines,  and  his  frankness  and  freshness  is  positively 
inspiring  to  me.  Then,  too,  he  is  an  ideal  teacher, 
for  he  does  the  students  the  honor  to  think  with 
them  rather  than  for  them.  He  is  always  studying 
while  he  is  on  the  platform,  and  you  see  the  glad- 
ness on  his  face  as  he  suddenly  finds  out  something 

new  about  Christ.      He  reminds  me  of  the  men  who 

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fought  and  died  for  God  and  truth  in  the  dark  days 
of  the  church.  He  would  be  a  martyr  (and  a  grand 
one)  if  the  voice  of  his  Lord  called  him  to  take  up 
the  cross,  and  I  always  want  to  do  and  dare  grand 
things  after  I  come  away  from  his  missionary 
meetings. " 

With  such  a  leader  those  on  the  seats  below  are 
not  indifferent  to  the  cry  of  the  sin -blinded  and 
night-enveloped  children  of  the  Dark  Continent,  or 
the  enslaved  and  famine-sick  women  of  India. 
"Women,"  did  I  say?  Oh,  Christian  women  who 
are  truly  dignified  with  that  great  name,  when  will 
you  go  to  her,  to  lift  her  up  to  your  stature,  to  your 
Christ?  From  time  to  time,  returned  missionaries 
attend  our  meetings  and  tell  us  of  their  work;  slow 
toil,  weary  toil,  and  sometimes  so  fev\r  results  that 
one  could  not  help  asking  how  they  endured  it  at  all 
without  losing  courage  and  forgetting  to  hope.  But 
they  knew  God!  That  is  the  answer  to  many  a 
perplexing  question,  that  is  the  knowledge  that 
kindles  the  eye,  binds  up  the  broken-hearted  and 
heals  the  feeble-hearted,  that  is  the  knowledge  that 
sees  the  name  of  Jesus  written  on  the  filthiest 
being  that  ever  found  a  hiding  place  on  God's 
footstool. 


ACOUT    THE   "white    FIELDS"  63 

*  *  -X-  -X-  7f 

And  in  these  missionary  meetings  we  are  let  into 
strange  secrets.  A  returned  missionary  from  India 
told  us  one  day  that  the  Mahomedans  always  seemed 
to  have  a  great  welcome  for  her,  and  during  her  visits 
the  man  of  the  house  would  lie  on  his  floor,  while  his 
wife  waited  upon  him  with  great  solicitude  and  the 
missionary  told  him  Bible  stories.  He  always  wanted 
to  hear  the  creation  story;  no  matter  what  kind  of 
Mahomedan  he  was — big  or  little,  fat  or  thin,  nice- 
looking  or  ug-ly,  he  wanted  to  hear  the  creation  story. 

"I  wondered  sorely  about  this,"  said  our  mission- 
ary, "and  one  day  I  learned  the  secret.  A  woman 
is  of  no  account  in  the  eyes  of  the  people  I  was 
working  among.  No  matter  how  vile,  cruel  or 
unfaithful  her  husband  is,  the  woman  has  to  bow 
down  and  acknowledge  him  as  her  master  and 
superior.  I  was  one  day  comforting  an  unhappy 
wife,  and  as  she  recounted  to  me  her  sorrows  I  said: 
'But  why  don't  you  advise  your  husband;  he  might 
do  better  if  you  did.'  'Ah,'  she  said  sadly,  'have 
you  forgotten  the  creation  story  you  always  read  to 
my  husband?  You  know  what  happened  when  Eve 
advised  her  husband. '  And  then  I  could  see  why 
the  Mahomedans  liked  that  story." 


MRS.    S.    I!.   CAPROX. 


AI50UT    THE    "WHITK    FIFJ.DS"  65 

We  langh  at  the  pathetic  luimor  in  that  answer — 
and  is  that  all? 

Thank  God,  my  Cliristian  sisters,  tluit  in  Christ 
Jesus  there  is  neither  male  nor  female,  bond  nor 
free,  that  He  came  doin^^-  away  with  the  curse,  tliat 
He  made  all  women  royal  by  becoming-  "the  seed  of 
the  woman,"  that  He  gathered  faithful  women 
about  Him,  and  that  the  Roman  maidens  who  were 
tortured  to  death  for  His  sake  were  as  truly  His 
martyrs  as  were  the  kingly  defenders  of  tlie  faith 
who  were  surely  our  highest  type  of  men.  Sister 
women,  we  owe  not  only  life  and  light  and  hope  and 
heaven  to  Jesus  Christ,  but  the  right  to  social,  men- 
tal and  physical  freedom.  Shall  we  not  be  Hypatias 
of  the  Kingdom's  philosophy? 

w  %v  TT  TV  w 

I  cannot  close  this  chapter  without  quoting  some 
of  the  philosophy  I  gleaned  from  time  to  time  from 
the  talks  of  returned  missionaries. 

"When  I  went  to  Persia  I  found  I  took  myself 
with  me,"  said  one;  "I  had  tlie  same  temptations 
face  me  in  heathendom  that  beset  me  in  civilization. 
We  carry  our  own  environment  with  us.  Oh,  tliank 
God  that  it  can  be  'Not  I,  but  Christ.'  " 

With  unconscious  humor  a  Swiss  lady-physician. 


66  A    REPORTER    AT    MOODY 'S 

who  came  to  the  United  States  for  a  rest  after  her 
arduous  duties  as  a  medical  missionary,  said: 
"Please  pray  for  the  missionaries  in  India.  The 
hot  weather  is  ahriost  unbearable,  and  they  suffer 
much.  The  deval  and  his  hosts  don't  mind  the 
heat." 

"The  requisites  for  a  foreign  missionary,"  said 
another,  "are  personal  consecration,  common  sense, 
tact,  adaptibility  and  versatility.  O^ie  must  have 
the  knack  of  'getting  on'  with  people,  for  even  mis- 
sionaries have  personal  idiosyncrasies,  and  you  must 
try  to  get  on  sweetly  with  them  whether  they  are 
congenial  or  not.  You  will  only  see  the  queer, 
cranky,  peculiar  side  at  first,  but  yon  must  seek  for 
the  lovable.  In  your  work  you  must  be  ready  to  do 
anything,  from  making  a  coffin  for  a  dead  member 
of  your  little  flock  to  putting  up  a  house,  preaching 
a  sermon  without  notice  or  making  a  loaf  of  bread. 
Be  sure  not  to  offend  the  religious  or  social  pecul- 
iarities of  the  people  you  work  amongst.  Learn 
their  ways,  respect  their  customs  and  try  to  become 
one  of  them  for  Jesus'  sake.  Then  you  can  catch 
them  without  guile." 


CHAPTER    IX 

FACTS    AND    PHILOSOPHY 

There  is  little  difference  in  the  routine  of  life 
between  the  men's  and  women's  departments.  The 
following  daily  programme  will  ^^ive  a  pretty 
accurate  idea  of  how  a  student's  time  is  occupied 
during  the  winter  term. 

Tuesday — 

9         a.  m. — Chapter  Summary. 

10  a.  m. — Elementary  Notation. 

11  a.  m. — Personal  Work,  or  Report  Meeting. 
2  :  30  p.  m. — ]\Iale  Chorus. 

5         p.  m. — Physical  Culture  Class. 

8  p.  m. — Synthetic  Bible  Study. 
Wednesday — 

9  a.  m. — Normal  Bible  Class. 

10  a.  m. — General  Chorus. 

11  a.  m. — Bible  Doctrine. 

1  :  30  p.  m.  —  Elementary  Harmony. 
5         p.  m. — Physical  Culture. 
67 


68  A    REPORTER    AT    MOODY  S 

Thursday — 

9         a.  ni. — Methods  of  Children's  work. 

10  a.  m. — Advanced  Notation. 

11  a.  m. — Bible  Doctrine. 

I  :  30  p.  m. — Advanced  Harmony. 
5         p.  m. — Physical  Culture. 

Friday— 

9         a.  m. — ^lissionary  vStudy  and  Prayer  Union. 

10  a.  m. — Elementary  Notation. 

11  a.  m. — Bible  Doctrine. 

1 :  30  p.  m. — Normal  Training  Class  (music). 
5         p.  m. — Physical  Culture. 

Saturday — 

9         a.  m. — "Romans"  (analytical  study). 

10  a.  m. — Conducting  Class  (music). 

1 1  a.  m. — International  Sunday  School  Lesson. 
5         p.  m. — Physical  Culture.  ' 

Monday  is  always  "Rest  Day"  at  the  Institute. 
The  day  belongs  to  each  one  to  use  it  wisely  or 
foolishly,  as  they  think  best.  Some  use  it  foolishly; 
they  study,  attend  to  neglected  buttons  and  similar 
duties,  and  of  course  they  suffer  for  their  zeal  after 
a  time.  Others  brush  up  their  bicycle  clothes  and 
go  into  the  parks  and  woods,    and   breathe  in   the 


FACTS    AND    rHILOSOPHY  69 

atmosplierc  that  makes  every  bit  o'  green  fresh  and 
inspiring,  and  that  speaks  of  the  God  whose  physical 
laws  are  as  sacred  as  His  other  written  and  unwrit- 
ten ones.  If  Christian  workers  everywhere  would 
learn  to  love  nature,  their  ministry  would  be 
sweeter,  holier  and  grander.  Let  a  tired  weary 
woman,  worn  from  contact  with  the  work-a-day 
world  and  her  soul  locked  up  by  a  common-place 
key  of  her  own  making,  see  you  come  in  with  your 
cheeks  all  aglow,  your  eyes  bright  and  your  hands 
warm  from  shaking  hands  with  Mother  Nature,  and 
she  will  straighten  up  and  look  at  you  and  listen 
gladly  to  the  Gospel  of  spiritual  and  physical  health 
you  bring  her.  Oh,  my  friends,  drop  your  books 
and  your  nerves  and  your  fretting.  Stop  surveying 
sin  and  sadness  for  a  time,  and  go  apart  and  rest 
awhile  with  the  ]\laster.  Go  up  into  the  mountain 
where  the  air  is  fresh  and  pure,  and  listen  to  the 
fairies  of  dew  and  sunset  watering  the  grass  and  the 
wild  flowers,  and  hushing  the  birds  to  sleep.  See 
the  sky  over  which  the  Hand  of  the  great  Artist  is 
passing.  Have  you  ever  seen  gold  so  rare  and  won- 
derful? Was  ever  crimson  so  glowing?  Violet  and 
purple  and  wonderful  sea  blue  arc  all  blending  in 
one.     The  grass  is  disarmed  (jf  its  blades  before  the 


r^^i'-^'m^'^^^^'^ 


KACTS    AxVb    I'HlLOSOl'HV  7I 

beauty  of  it  all,  and  down  in  its  lowly  bed  it  is 
catching-  the  ohn-y  and  reflecting-  it.  Ah,  you  are 
thinking-  now  that  your  life  can  be  transformed  in 
just  that  same  way.  Can?  Why,  it  is!  Your  face 
is  transfigured  already,  and  your  heart  is  bowed 
before  the  love  and  g-reatness  of  God.  You  walk 
home  with  a  very  tender  heart  this  evening,  for  you 
feel  a  kinship  with  everything  around  you,  and  even 
when  the  raindrops  commence  to  fall,  you  do  not 
hasten  your  steps,  for  they  are  so  soft  and  gentle 
and  in  such  accord  with  your  mood,  that  you  feel  as 
if  Mother  Nature  is  weeping  for  very  joy,  as  you  do 
when  your  heart  is  glad  because  of  the  nearness  of 
God. 

Or  it  may  be  a  morning  walk  in  the  woodland  that 
you  have  chosen,  and  while  everything  is  quiet 
around  you,  and  you  are  "considering  the  lilies," 
and  the  sparrows  that  God  remembers,  the  heavenly 
choir  bursts  into  music.  You  see  the  birds,  but  you 
see  beyond  them — their  rich  melody  means  "Holy, 
Holy,  Holy,  Lord  God  Almighty"  to  you,  and  with 
the  rosy  face  of  the  morning  kissing  all  the  woods 
into  life  and  into  obedience  to  the  Creator,  you  cry 
out  in  the  fullness  of  your  soul,  "( )h,  how  love  I  Thy 
law!" 


72  A     RICPORTER    AT    MOODY  S 

Can  the  world  yonr  God  made,  and  whose  soil  His 
feet  have  touched,  ever  be  a  common-place  spot  to 
you  again?  If  He  has  made  us  in  His  own  image, 
may  it  not  be  that  this  old  earth  of  ours  is  a  dim 
reflection  of  the  home  in  which  the  many  mansions 
are?  Oh,  let  us  go  out  and  grow  young  at  heart 
again.  Let  our  voices  mingle  with  the  harmonies 
of  nature,  and  let  us  learn  to  say  with  understand- 
ing hearts:  "Lift  up  your  heads,  oh,  ye  gates;  and 
be  ye  lifted  up,  ye  everlasting  doors,  and  the  King 
of  Glory  shall  come  in." 


The  rising  bell  rings  at  6 :  45  (except  on  Sunday 
and  Monday  mornings),  and  the  breakfast  bell  rings 
at  7:30.  Morning  devotions  are  held  after  break- 
fast, and  because  these  contribute  very  largely  to 
the  spiritual  life  of  the  Institute  I  will  devote  some 
time  to  them  later  on.  On  Sunday  morning  the 
"Act  of  Faith"  is  repeated  in  concert  by  the  stu- 
dents, before  the  half -hour  of  sweet  Sabbath  wor- 
ship begins.      The  "act"  is  as  follows: 

"I  believe  on  the  name  of  the  Son  of  God.  There- 
fore I  am  in  Him,  having  redemption  through  His 
Blood  and  life  by   His  Spirit.      And   He  is  in  me. 


FACTS    AND    PHILOSOPHY 


73 


and  all  fullness  is  in  Him.  To  Him  I  belong  by 
purchase,  conquest  and  self-surrender;  to  me  He 
belongs  for  all  my  hourly  needs.  There  is  no 
difficulty,  inward  or  outward,  that  He  is  not  ready 
to  meet  in  me  to-day.  The  Lord  is  my  keeper. 
Amen  !  ' ' 


CHAPTER  X 

'*IN    PRISON,     AND    YE    VISITED    ME" 

On  Sabbath  morning  some  of  the  students  go  to 
the  city  prisons.  Ah,  that  is  where  one  needs  to 
take  the  power  of  God  and  the  freshness  of  good 
living,  and  a  world  into  which  sin's  defiling  touch 
does  not  enter. 

I  shall  always  remember  my  first  visit  to  a  Chi- 
cago jail.  I  could  not  only  blush  for  womanhood 
that  morning,  but  I  felt  as  if  I  could  bleed  for  it. 
A  young  girl  of  fourteen  was  among  the  number. 
She  represented  the  first  step  in  sin,  and  a  swear- 
ing, suffering,  coarse,  miserable  woman  of  about 
forty-five  represented  the  last.  Consumption  and 
sin  had  chiseled  her  face  into  a  hideous  thing,  and 
yet  it  was  easy  enough  to  discover  the  woman  heart 
and  appeal  to  it.  Several  of  the  girls  had  faces  that 
were  not  at  all  ill-looking,  but  oh!  the  light  was 
gone.  The  unspiritual  forces  had  been  at  work  and 
had  plucked  out  all   the  light  of  promise  and  the 

74 


"in     I'RISON,     AND    V  K    VISIT KI)    Mk"  75 

grandeur  of  possibility  that  so  i^loiifics  a  woir.an's 
face.  Somehow  a  fallen  man  is  never  so  wretched 
and  sad  a  sij^ht  as  a  fallen  woman.  Not  because  he 
can  "letorm"  easier;  such  a  statement  is  a  lie. 
Lost  purity  and  defiled  character  is  as  irrecoverable 
in  the  one  as  in  the  other.  But  woman  has  built 
her  own  throne,  and  when  she  does  not  occupy  it, 
we  see  with  horror  how  far  she  has  fallen.  Suffer- 
ing and  humiliation  and  subjection  may  have  aided 
in  the  building  of  her  throne,  but  she  has  grown 
strong  and  pure  and  great  through  their  aid. 

Two  of  the  girls  in  prison  asked  prayers  that  they 
might  find  their  Savior  that  Sabbath  morning,  and 
some  of  us  felt  like  conquerors  in  a  land  where 
the  number  of  the  enemy  was  overwhelming.  It  is 
a  great  joy  to  set  a  captive  country  free,  but  it  is 
ecstasy  unspeakable  to  set  a  soul  free  whom  Satan 
has  bound  with  chains  of  his  own  forging.  Oh', 
thank  God  that  the  Lion  of  the  Tribe  of  Judah  can 
break  every  chain,  and  that  the  Blood  of  Jesus 
Christ  cleanseth  from  all   sin. 

Homes  for  girls  are  needed  in  Chicago.  The  few 
there  are,  are  crowded,  and  it  is  most  heart-rending 
to  find  a  girl  willing  to  give  up  her  evil  way  and  no 
place  to  take  her  to. 


76  A     KKPORTER    AT    MOODY's 

vSo  a  student's  life  is  not  all  joy.  A  little  heart- 
ache comes  occasionally  with  all  of  the  gladness. 
Perhaps  it  is  a  part  of  the  fellowship  of  His  suffer- 


CHAPTER    XI 

MISS    HALL    AND    THK    YOUNG    IDEA 

Miss  Mabel  Hall  is  one  of  the  instructors  at  the 
Bible  Institute,  her  s])ecial  branch  bein<^-  training- 
students  in  children's  work.  I  discovered  she  would 
make  a  good  journalist,  after  listenino^  to  her  a  few 
times.  She  is  quick  to  separate  a  real  fact  from  a 
supposed  one.  A  student  might  quote  a  text  illus- 
trative of  mercy,  which  really  stood  for  justice,  and 
in  a  few  seconds  Miss  Hall  would  have  shown  him 
to  his  own  satisfaction  (as  well  as  to  hers)  the  differ- 
ence. She  never  takes  anything  for  granted,  but 
gets  at  the  bottom  of  it  as  quickly  as  a  diver  for 
truth  coukL 


Some  one  may  ask  here,  for   the   writer's  special 
benefit, 

"Oh,  but  do  not  journalists  do  that?" 
Yes,   they  do.      On  the   whole,   a  journalist  pos- 
sesses as  much  veracity  (if  not  more)  than  a  jew- 

77 


eler,  a  tailor,  or  a  fisherman.  Every  reputable 
newspaper  wants  the  truth.  It  is  the  people  who 
lie.  Over  and  over  I  have  been  asked  by  men  and 
women  to  put  downright  lies  into  newspaper  reports. 
There  are  some  who  are  constantly  seeking  inter- 
views and  newspaper  notoriety,  and  then  wondering 
"how  these  terrible  reporters  ever  find  out  so  much 
about  me!"  There  is  another  class  of  persons  who 
refuse  to  answer  questions,  and  so  the  seeker  for 
news  has  to  get  his  information  elsewhere. 

Mr.  Moody  recognized  the  power  and  influence  of 
the  newspaper,  and  the  newspaper  recognized  the 
same  in  him.  Because  I  too,  see  the  scepter  in  the 
reporter's  hands  (for  that  stub  of  a  pencil  is  a 
scepter),  I  wish  that  Christians  in  public  work  would 
treat  him  with  Christian  courtesy  for  his  soul's  sake 
and  for  the  sake  of  the  good  that  he  can  do.  Hun- 
dreds of  journalists  never  attend  religious  gather- 
ings except  in  a  professional  capacity.  Are  they 
worth  saving?  Mr.  Moody  thought  so,  so  did  Mrs. 
Booth,  and  so  did  Frances  Willard. 


One  of  Miss  Hall's  great  points  was  "the  point  of 
contact." 


I\ri.SS    \l\\A,     AND    TIIK    YOUNG    IDIIA  79 

"Children  arc  painfully  literal,"  she  used  to  say, 
"and  so  you  must  not  say  a  single  thing  that  will 
lead  them  astray  or  give  them  a  false  impression. 
They  understand  simple  words  and  simple  illustra- 
tions, and  3^ou  must  never  lake  it  for  granted  that 
they  know  anything.  Your  business  is  to  teach 
them  the  lesson  you  essay  to  teach,  so  that  if  they 
have  never  hea^d  it  before  or  never  will  again  they 
will  get  the  truth.  Christ  always  discovered  the 
point  of  contact.  He  never  used  scientific  terms 
and  learned  arguments  that  would  puzzle  the  com- 
mon mind,  but  when  He  wanted  to  show  them  how 
He  was  to  be  their  spiritual  food  Pie  showed  them  a 
loaf  of  bread.  'I  am  the  bread  of  life.'  They  all 
knew  about  b'ght,  so  He  chose  that,  and  told  them 
He  was  the  light  of  the  world.  They  lived  in  a 
grape-producing  country,  so  He  pointed  to  the  vine 
and  told  them  v\^hat  relation  they  bore  to  Hini,  and 
illustrated  it  by  showing  how  the  branch  produced 
fruit  by  abiding  in  the  vine.  His  method  of  teach- 
ing was  simple,  clear,  dignified.  His  words  were  all 
little  ones  of  one  or  two  syllables,  yet  His  language 
was  classic,  chaste  and  vigorous." 

It  was  amusing  to  see  the  student  who  used 
rhetoric   with  terrible  prodigality,  abate  his  zeal  in 


8o  A    REPORT  KR     AT     MOODV'S 

the  use  of  flowery  lanf^ua^^e  when  Miss  Hall 
reminded  the  class  that  the  o-reatest  Teacher  that 
ever  walked  the  earth  found  a  wonderful  lesson  in 
a  grain  of  salt:  "Ye  are  the  salt  of  the  earth.  "  And 
the  up-to-date  student  who  was  prone  to  dispense 
with  good  English  and  use  slang  in  order  to  be 
"one  of  the  people,"  found  that  Christ  was  one  of 
them  too,  and  yet  that  He  never  became  vulgar  or 
coarse. 

vStudents  were  given  special  subjects  to  study, 
week  after  week,  and  then  they  were  told  to  tell 
them  as  if  they  were  talking  to  an  audience  of 
children.  The  other  students  were  allowed  to  "play, 
being  children,"  and  ask  questions  of  "teacher" 
from  time  to  time,  but  these  became  so  very  preco- 
cious, and  "I'enfant  terrible"  became  so  much  of  a 
nuisance  that  he  (she  too)  was  suppressed  after  a 
time. 

"Do  not  pound  the  application  home,"  was  one  of 
Miss  Hall's  favorite  maxims.  "Bible  stories  can  be 
made  full  of  interest  if  you  get  the  local  coloring 
and  the  vividness  of  story  telling  that  you  can  have 
by  reading  everything  possible  on  the  subject,  and 
exerting  your  imagination  so  that  you  can  live 
among  the  things  you  are  talking  about.     You  must 


82  A     RKPOKTER    AT     MOODV's 

sec  a  thing-  yourself  before  you  can  picture  it  in 
such  a  way  that  others  can  see  it.  Leave  the  truth 
in  the  child's  mind,  but  do  not  hammer  and  ham- 
mer it  in  until  yyu  hammer  the  charm  of  the  story 
out." 

As  each  student  told  the  stoiy  (the  birth  of  Christ, 
the  stilling-  of  the  tempest,  the  healing  of  the  par- 
alytic were  among  those  narrated)  Miss  Hall  took 
notes,  and  then  criticised  ver}^  kindly,  but  very 
clearly  and  firmly,  every  fault.  (Jne  student  made 
the  statement  that  "punishment  is  always  caused  by 
sin."  Miss  Hall  denied  it  vigorously,  stating  that 
she  was  once  punished  wrongly  when  she  was  a 
child,  and  that  the  wrong  in  that  punishment  left  a 
trace  of  bitterness  for  some  time.  Others  in  the 
room  had  a  similar  testimony  to  give,  and  it  was 
readily  shown  by  the  teacher  how  a  high-spirited 
child  would  resent  siich  teaching.  Miss  Hall 
changed  the  statement  to  "sin  always  brings  pun- 
ishment." 

The  importance  of  children's  meetings  and  the 
scarcity  of  people  who  know  the  child  nature  or  can 
make  themselves  intelligible  to  the  child  mind,  were 
among  the  things  that  occurred  to  me  during  Miss 
Hall's  teaching. 


MISS    HALL    AND    THE    VOUXG    IDEA  83 

People  do  not  say:  "(July  a  children's  nieetino, " 
as  much  as  they  used  to.  They  are  getting  to  see 
that  the  child  is  really  "father  to  the  man,"  and 
that  the  time  to  influence  him  is  before  he  has 
decided  what  his  fatherhood  will  be. 

One  of  our  former  students  told  us  of  a  little  Ger- 
man girl,  named  'Annie,  who  had  learned  to  know 
Jesus  as  her  Savior,  and  who  organized  a  Sunday- 
school  in  a  cellar,  gathered  in  the  children  of  the 
neighborhood,  and  maintained  it  herself  until  teach- 
ers were  obtained.  This  was  the  work  of  one  little 
girl  in  South  Chicago  who  had  been  led  to  God 
through  the  student's  Bible  stories.  Her  work  has 
only  begun,  and  the  prophecy  of  her  teacher  that 
she  would  develop  into  a  Gospel  settlement  worker, 
did  not  seem  strange  or  improbable. 

Miss  Hall  encourages  the  use  of  the  blackboard, 
and  makes  a  plea  for  tact,  alertness,  love  and 
prayerfnlness  whenever  she  speaks  to  those  who 
work  among  children.  She  believes  in  good  inspir- 
ing music  and  has  a  bell-song  that  plays  a  musical 
"ding  dong"  of  welcome  while  the  children  swing 
their  arms  to  and  fro  as  if  they  were  "really  truly 
bells."  This  not  only  amuses  them,  but  it  gives 
them  a  chance  to  "rest  from  their  labors"  and  gives 


84  A    REPORTER    AT    MOODY 's 

them  some  of  the  physical  exercise  children  delight 
in.  Sometimes  she  stops  in  the  middle  of  the  exer- 
cises and  orders  the  windows  to  be  opened,  while 
the  little  ones  "play  steam  engine"  by  taking  along 
breath  and  then  exhaling.  This  purifies  the  air  of 
the  room,  expands  the  little  lungs,  and  amuses  the 
children.  Besides  this  it  rests  them  to  rise  from 
their  seats,  and  relax  their  bodies  for  a  time.  She 
believes  in  symbols  and  blackboard  illustrations, 
and  in  short  she  believes  in  and  encourages  every 
art  that  will  bring  the  truth  home  to  the  child  mind 
in  a  simple,  effective  wa^^ 

It  is  fitting  to  close  this  chapter  with  Miss  Hall's 
oftenest  repeated  phrase: 

"Feel  what  you  talk  about;  get  into  the  spirit  of 
the  thing;  see  what  you  are  picturing;  practice  tell- 
ing your  story  to  a  number  of  chairs  (if  you  have  no 
better  audience)  before  you  tell  it  to  your  class;  and 
remember  that  prayer  is  the  greatest  power  5^ou  can 
wield." 


CHAPTER    XII 

THE    POUND,    "on    I5ELL,"    AND    THANKSGIVING    DAY 

The  "pound"  is  a  great  institution  at  the  women's 
department.  Many  a  time  and  oft  h.ave  I  looked 
for  my  hat,  umbrella,  overshoes,  or  some  favorite 
book,  and  after  \'ainly  searching  my  poor  brain  for 
a  record  of  their  disposal,  some  one  w^uld  suggest 
"the  pound";  and  I  would  go  down  to  that  room 
that  witnessed  to  our  careless  habits,  and  find  my 
property.  The  pound  is  a  splendid  thing  for  care- 
less people,  but  what  is  one  going  to  do  to  the 
student  who  deliberately  deposits  her  belongings 
there,  philosophically  remarking: 

"Well,  I  am  liable  to  .forget  them  around  the 
house  somewhere,  and  they  will  be  put  there  any- 
how. If  I  put  them  there  myself  I  will  know  where 
they  are,  and  it  will  save  me  the  trouble  of  bringing 
them  down  stairs  again  when  I  need  them." 

Again  and  again  I  suggested  to  Mrs.  Harper  to 
have  a  fine  imposed  on  the  student  who  appeared  at 

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A     RF.I'ORTr.R    AT    MOODY   S 


the  pound  more  than  once  a  week,  but  she  would 
sl3'ly  remark  that  she  thought  wr  money  would  not 
last  very  long  under  such  circumstances. 

The  "bell  girl"  is  as  important  an  individual  as 
the  pound  is  an  institution.  Being  "on  bell"  is  a 
duty  that  falls  to  the  lot  of  each  student  from  time 

to  time.  In  the 
men's  department 
they  are  said  to  be 
"on  the  door,"  but 
whether  this  is  a 
more  comfortable 
position  than  the 
other  has  never 
been  explained. 

The  girl  who  is 
"on  bell"  has  to 
receive  all  visitors. 
The  one  who  is  on  last  at  night  ha:^  the  added 
responsibility  of  seeing  that  the  doors  are  locked 
properly,  the  lights  all  extinguished,  and  everything 
left  in  an  orderly  condition,  and  is  kissed  by  all  her 
fellow  students  by  wa)^  of  recompense.  When  I  was 
a  "freshie"  T  did  not  know  of  this  custom,  and  as 
newspaper   women   never  kiss    each    other    in    that 


CRAM)    STAIRWAY,    MAIN    KUILDING. 


THE   POUND,    "on     P.ELL,"    AND    TH  A  NKSGI  VINCi    DAY    87 

"cuddling-,"  "dearie"  fashion  less  important  people 
assume  (indeed,  anything-  but  a  hearty  warm  hand- 
clasp would  make  them  blush  for  weakness),  I  was 
a  strang-er  to  it  all.  One  awful  night  I  sat  in  the 
bell  girl's  chair.  I  did  not  know  it  belonged  to  that 
important  individual,  or  that  it  had  any  meaning- 
for  the  rest  of  my  fellow  students,  and  so  I  allowed 
myself  to  become  absorbed  by  a  book  on  astronomy. 
But  presently  I  was  "seeing  stars"  of  a  different 
variety,  for  one  after  another  approached  me,  and 
saluted.  I  vaguely  wondered  if  they  thought  I  was 
a  cousin  to  some  war  hero,  the  bone  of  a  saint  or  a 
sacred  relic.  Evidently  they  thought  I  was  some- 
thing or  some  one  I  knew  I  was  not.  As  kiss  after 
kiss  rained  on  my  helpless  face  I  grew  more  and 
more  dazed.  I  commenced  to  wish  I  had  whiskers 
like  "Oom  Paul's,"  or  was  going  through  a  doctrine 
examination.  I  do  not  know  but  1  would  have  even 
been  glad  at  the  time  to  be  faced  with  a  heresy 
trial.  I  was  on  the  point  of  running  away  ignomini- 
ously  when  the  real  bell  girl  came  and  claimed  the 
remainder  of  her  patrimony. 

^  ^  ^  ^  7T 

Thanksgiving  Day  and  the  Christmas  season  are 
very  pleasant  times  at   the  Institute.      On  Thanks- 


88  A    RKPORTKR     AT    MOODV's 

giving"  Day  the  men  extended  an  invitation  to  "the 
lesser  man"  to  take  dinner  with  them,  and  after 
that  to  enjoy  an  original  programme  especially  pre- 
pared for  the  students.  It  was  a  delightful  day  and 
evening,  and  the  "original  paintings"  were  espe- 
cially enjoyed.  "Old  Dog  Tray"  has  not  yet  been 
forgotten.  I  will  not  tell  the  secret  of  that  famous 
art  gallery,  lest  those  who  take  our  places  in  the 
years  to  come  would  be  deprived  of  the  privilege  of 
an  original  appreciation.  But  there  is  one  picture  I 
will  speak  of,  for  it  puzzled,  me  sorely,  and  has  ever 
since.  I  was  chosen  to  describe  the  paintings,  and 
so,  of  course,  was  standing  on  the  platform.  Behind 
me  was  the  screen  which  hid  the  pictures  from 
view,  and  as  I  announced  each  new  one  the  screen 
was  drawn.  When  I  came  to  No.  8:  "Not  so  much 
of  a  fool  as  she  looks,"  the  screen  was  drawn  but 
there  was  nothing  there — nothing  and  no  one,  but 
Diysclf.      Every  one  roared. 


On  a  similar  occasion  a  potato  race  was  in  prog- 
ress.    Miss    G and    Mr.   W were    making 

rapid  strides,  but  like  many  others  who  started  out 
hopeful  in  greater  races  they  were  defeated.      Mr. 


THE   POUND,    "on     I'.ELL,"    AND    THANKSGIVING     DAY    09 

W received  a  tack  hammer  as  the  booby  prize, 

and  Mr.  Hunter  presented  it  to  him  with  a  twinkle 
in  his  eye  and  mischief  in  his  voice,  saying: 

"We  know  you  are  on  the  right  tack,  and  (placing 
his  hand  on  Mr.  W's  head)  you  can  be  a  head,  but 
you  are  not  yet.  I  hope  this  will  help  you  to  ham- 
mer in  some  things  so  that  you  will  be. " 


CHAPTER   XIII 

D.     L.     MOODY,    THE    SERVANT    OF    GOD 

Some  blinded  beings  whose  philosoph}^  (to  say 
nothing  of  their  religion  or  common  sense)  was  no 
longer  than  their  noses,  asked  us  over  and  over 
again  as  we  visited  amongst  them,  or  talked  to  them 
in  churches: 

"Why  did  God  take  away  Mr.  Moody  if  he  was 
doing  such  good  work?" 

A  Christian  young  man  had  the  following  to  say, 
and  he  said  it  as  if  the  timbers  of  the  world  were 
going  to  be  shivered : 

"I  tell  yon,  it  makes  me  go  dangerously  near 
becoming  an  infidel  to  see  a  man  so  much  used  of 
God  as  D,  L.  Mood)^  taken  away  in  the  midst  of  his 
usefulness. " 

A    "Moody    student"    answered   him    by    saying 

quietly:  "There  will  be  many  like  you  discovered 

to  themselves,   my  brother.     Your  faith  is  built  on 

man,  not    on    God.      You    give    the    Creator   and 

Redeemer  the  glory  for  raising   up    great  workers, 

but  you  turn   and  revile   Him  when  He  says,  Well 

90 


i).    L.    MOODY,    THE    SERVANT    OF    GOD  9I 

done,  good  and  faithful  servant,  enter  thou  into  the 
joy  of  thy  Lord.  " 

It  is  told  of  Mr.  Moody  that  he  was  once  walking 
with  a  friend  at  Northfield,  and  after  listening  to 
liis  friend's  praises  of  him  he  said  with  great  emo- 
tion: 

"See  this  handful  of  earth  I  have  picked  up  from 
the  ground — that  is  all  bloody  is,  except  what  God 
has  done  for  him. " 

The  lesson  that  God  wants  to  teach  the  world 
when  He  works  miracles  through  a  human  life,  is 
the  greatness  and  power  and  love  of  the  heavenly 
Father.  The  lesson  the  dull  -  headed  and  dead- 
hearted  world  gets  is:  "Oh  dear,  things  were  going 
all  right,  and  now  they  are  all  wrong — a  man  has 
been  taken  away. "  An  evil  and  adulterous  gener- 
ation seeketh  after  a  sign.  It  has  to  be  in  a  con- 
tinual state  of  kindergarten  training,  and  it  must 
see  and  feel  its  object  lessons,  or  else  it  will  not 
believe.  Oh,  when  will  we  learn  to  praise  the  Lord 
at  all  times,  to  learn  to  trust  Him  and  not  His 
servants,  who  are  merely  the  miracles  of  His  grace. 

One  of  our  students  once  said  to  me:  "Our 
prison  work  has  been  blessed  very  much  since  Miss 
So-and-so  went  away." 


92 


A     REPORTER    AT     MOODY  S 


"Why,  how  is  that?"  I  asked  in  surprise,  for  I 
knew  what  a  consecrated  woman  of  God  the  woman 
spoken  of  was. 

"Because  we  trusted  in  her,  and  not  in  God," 
was  the  reply.  "We  felt  she  knew  all  about  the 
work  and  could  get  through  it  all  right,  but  when 
she  went  away  we  felt  so  helpless  that  we  cried  to 
God  in  prayer  to  help  us,  and  He  has  been  blessing 
us  wonderfully  ever  since.  Our  work  is  better  than 
ever." 


It  was  with  a   great   sense  of  personal  loss  that 
every  student  heard  of  the   death   of  the   beloved 

founder  of  their  school. 
A  little  over  a  month  be- 
fore, he  had  talked  to  us 
in  the  lecture  room,  and 
his  cheery  voice  and  ear- 
nest pleading  and  homely 
teaching  were  still  with 
us.  He  was  then  on  his 
way  to  Kansas  City  to  the 
last  meetings  he  ever  con- 
ducted on  earth,  and  at  which  he  broke  down. 


iDY   S    ROOM    AT    THE 
INSTITUTE. 


D.  L.  MOODY,  THE  SERVANT  OF  GOD        93 

"I  must  have  souls  in  Kansas  City — never,  never 
have  I  wanted  so  much  to  lead  men  and  women  to 
Christ  as  I  do  this  time,"  he  told  us  with  the  tears 
running  down  his  good  friendly  face.  His  "rugged 
righteousness"  was  never  more  apparent  than  on 
that  day  when  he  laid  bare  to  each  one  of  us  our 
inward  selves,  and  said  in  his  direct  quick  way: 
"Own  up  now,  own  up  now,"  as  he  mentioned  one 
sin  after  another  that  was  keeping  us  from  the 
fullness  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  He  made  honest  con- 
fessions about  his  own  unworthiness,  and  the  cap- 
tivatingly  simple  way  he  talked  of  "Mrs.  Zebedee" 
and  the  other  Bible  characters  made  his  preaching 
full  of  pictures. 

I  once  heard  him  say  in  New  York  City  that  if 
Nicodemus  was  living  now  he  would  be  called  "the 
Honorable  Mr.  Nicodemus  of  New  York,"  and  poli- 
ticians would  whisper  one  to  another  to  look  out  for 
him,  for  he  was  the  one  who  controlled  the  Jewish 
vote.  He  would  wear  a  diamond  in  his  shirt  front 
and  live  up  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel.  A  little 
later  he  said:  "Mrs.  Nicodemus  is  the  only  human 
being  who  can  tell  us  how  good  or  how  bad  her 
husband  was.  If  you  want  to  know  a  man's  real 
character  go  to  his  wife." 


94  A    kEPORTER    AT    MOODY  S 

Mr.  Moody  did  not  care  much  for  the  faithfulness 
of  his  picture's  setting-  as  long  as  the  picture  was 
real.  He  used  to  talk  about  Daniel  taking-  out  his 
watch  in  the  lion's  den,  to  see  if  it  was  time  to  pray. 
You  laugh,  but  was  it  not  a  great  lesson  of  the 
quietness  and  assurance  of  faith?  Did  it  not  make 
Daniel  real  to  those  who  heard  it?  He  used  to 
picture  the  men  of  Noah's  day  scoffing  at  him  in 
the  corner  groceries  because  he  went  on  building 
the  ark  and  believing  the  word  of  God.  Then  Mr. 
Moody  would  explain  that  the  world  had  become  so 
bad  that  there  must  have  been  corner  groceries  in 
existence.  Though  you  laugh  at  the  idea,  Noah 
had  walked  out  of  the  heroic  dust  of  centuries  ago. 
His  miraculous  personality  had  faded,  and  you 
just  saw  an  ordinary  man  who  had  to  endure  ridi- 
cule and  persecution  from  a  lot  of  scoffing,  blinded 
sinners. 

Mr.  Moody's  personality  and  work  pervades  every 
corner  of  the  Institute.  He  ])elieved  in  students 
being  "doers  of  the  Word,"  and  while  no  man 
believed  in  study  more  than  he,  he  would  never  let 
the  study  of  books  take  the  place  of  the  study  of 
human  souls  and  the  labors  in  their  behalf.  He 
founded  the  Institute,  whicli  was  opened  on  October 


D.    L.    MOODY,    THE    SERVANT    OF    GOD  95 

I,  1889.  He  saw  the  need  of  proper  study  of  the 
Word  itself,  not  of  theological  treatises;  he  saw  that 
people  needed  to  be  taught  how  to  lead  sinners  to 
Christ;  and  with  the  sturdy  faith  in  God  of  which 
he  was  such  a  rich  possessor,  he  went  ahead  and 
made  this  possible. 

The  lecture,  music  rooms  and  offices  are  all  in  the 
men's  department.  The  women's  department  con- 
sists of  three  houses  adjoining  Chicago  Avenue 
(Moody's)  Church,  and  an  annex  farther  up  the 
street.  Our  principal  need  is  a  chapel  to  worship 
in,  but  we  are  very  optimistic  and  are  content  to 
await  God's  time,  giving  thanks  meanwhile  that  in 
the  sanctuaries  of  our  hearts  our  God  is  pleased 
to  dwell.  ]\lay  we  worship  Him  in  spirit  and  in 
truth: 

In  the  matter  of  woman's  work  and  sphere  there 
was  no  one  who  was  more  progressive  than  ]\Ir. 
Moody.  He  was  criticised  some  time  ago  for  an 
attack  on  women's  clubs,  but  as  a  matter  of  course, 
as  all  Institute  and  Noithfield  Seminary  girls  know, 
he  never  made  the  remarks  attributed  to  him. 

He  did  not  encourage  the  ordination  of  women, 
because  he  saw  no  authority  in  Holy  Writ  for  such 
a  proceeding,  but  since  he  was  not  ordained  himself 


96  A    RKPORTER     AT    MOODY 's 

that  formality  would  not  interfere  with  her  useful- 
ness, he  knew. 

"A  woman  was  the  first  preacher  of  the  resurrec- 
tion," he  was  fond  of  saying,  "and  though  there 
were  a  rascally  Judas,  a  lying,  weak  Peter  and  a 
doubting  Thomas  among  the  apostles,  the  women 
all  remained  true." 

People  said  Mr.  Moody  was  not  a  scholar,  but 
only  a  scholar  can  teach  all  shades  and  conditions 
of  men,  and  he  did  that.  He  did  not  know  Hebrew, 
but  he  knew  men.  He  learned  from  God,  so  what 
he  knew  was  the  truth,  not  conjecture  and  specula- 
tion. He  had  a  fine,  clear,  evenly  balanced  mind 
and  good  common  sense,  and  whatever  he  taught 
was  strong  and  fresh,  and  it  appealed  to  the  strong- 
est mind  and  the  tenderest  heart.  Had  he  been  a 
writer  he  would  have  beaten  Dickens  in  character 
delineation.  He  could  grasp  a  truth  and  make  it 
clear  to  others  while  a  scholar  with  titles  enough  to 
colonize  a  district,  would  be  tr3nng  to  squeeze  it 
into  his  pet  theory  mold.  Oh,  yes,  he  was  a 
scholar,  and  it  is  a  mistake  to  suppose  that  he  did 
not  read  and  study,  for  he  did. 

"You  can't  know  too  much"  he  said  to  us  during 
his  last  visit. 


D.     I..     MDODN',     rilK    SIRV.^N'T     OF    GOD  97 

*  -vv  -vv  -X-  7f 

I)iirin<4-  the   ten   years  the   In.stiLute    lias   been   in 

existence   nioie   tlian    3,000   men   and  women   have 

studied   there.      Of   those   wlio   liave   entered    upon 

their  life  work : 

202  are  in  home  and  city  and  rescue  missions.  The 
combination  of  study  and  practical  w^ork  throu^^h 
which  each  student  is  obliged  to  pass,  fits  men 
and  women  especially  for  this  kind  of  Christian 
work. 

180  are  engaged  in  evangelistic  work  as  preachers 
and  singers.  These  needed  a  difierent  training 
from  that  given  in  theological  seminaries  to  can- 
didates for  the  regular  ministry. 

368  are  pastors,  pastor's  assistants  and  church 
visitors.  Many  of  these  are  in  frontier  pastor- 
ates, where  a  knowledge  of  the  Word  of  God  and 
of  men  is  regarded  as  more  important  than  an 
extensive  scholastic  training. 

58  are  Sunday-school  missionaries.  Institute  stu- 
dents are  eagerly  sought  by  the  Boards  for  this 
line  of  Christian  service. 

25  are  Christian  Association  Secretaries.  The  train- 
ing given  in  the  knowledge  and  practical  use  of 
the  English  Bible  is  a  good  equipment  for  these. 


98  A    REPORTER    AT    J^IOODY's 

32  are  Colporters,      This  form  of  Christian  activity- 
has  been  revived  since  the  Colportage  Department 
was  added  to  the  Bible  Institute. 
186  are  preaching-  the  Gospel  in  foreign  lands.     The 
Institute  has  representatives  in   nearly  every  part 
of   heathendom    where    missionaries    have    pene- 
trated. 
38  are  in  educational  and  philanthropic  work.     That 
is,  as  Bible  and  music  teachers,   superintendents 
and  matrons  of  institutions,  etc. 
64  are  superintendents  of  city  missions  and  other 
5uich  responsible  institutions  in  the  largest  cities 
in  this  country  and  Canada. 

Three  other  classes  of  students  may  be  briefly 
mentioned : 

I.  Graduates  of  colleges  or  theological  seminaries 
who  wished  to  supplement  the  valuable  education 
received  at  these  schools  by  a  thorough  study  of  the 
English  Bible  and  methods  of  aggressive  Christian 
work. 

Many  college  and  seminary  students  spend  their 
vacations  at  the  Institute.  The  late  Dr.  A.  J.  Gor- 
don, of  Boston,  said  that  "without  intending  it,  the 
Bible  Institute  is  really  supplying  a  post  graduate 
course  to  many  candidates  for  the  regular  ministry.  " 


1).     L.    MOODY,    TliK    SERVANT    OF     (.Ol)  QQ 

2.  Ministers,  evangelists,  returned  missionaries, 
and  Christian  workers  in  general,  who  have  had 
actual  experience  in  the  field,  and  who  wish  to  give 
some  time  to  further  study  and  preparation  for 
larger  usefulness. 

3.  Men  and  women  who  do  not  intend  to  devote 
their  entire  time  to  Gospel  work,  but  who  desire  a 
larger  acquaintance  with  the  Bible  and  methods  of 
Christian  effort,  that,  while  pursuing  their  secular 
callings,  they  might  also  work  intelligently  and  suc- 
cessfully in  winning  others  to  Christ. 

To  meet  the  needs  of  these  classes  is  regarded  no 
small  part  of  the  object  of  the  Bible  Institute. 


The  Bible  Institute  has  been  well  called  the  West 
Point  of  Christian  work.  Its  students  are  taught 
nothing  they  do  not  need  to  know,  and  are  called 
upon  to  put  into  actual  use  what  they  do  know,  so 
that  they  do  not  become  rusty  from  lack  of  use  or 
puffed  up  with  their  own  good  opinion  of  them- 
selves. The  Institute  is  cosmopolitan  in  character, 
and  men  and  women  from  all  quarters  of  the  world 
(Japan,  India,  Bulgaria,  the  British  Isles,  Canada, 
etc.,  etc.)    study  within   its  walls.      The  institution 


lOO  A    RF.PORTKR    AT    MOODV   S 

at  present  owns  land  and  buildinLi's  which  (with  a 
limited  endowment)  exceed  $300,000  in  value. 
vStudents  are  only  charged  $3.50  weekly  for  board, 
tuition  beinj^^  entirely  free,  and  visitors  who  wish  to 
study  methods  and  take  advantage  of  the  lectures 
and  the  musical  instruction  may  do  so  without 
enrolling  by  paying  $5  a  week. 

I  wish  that  wealthy  men  and  women  throughout 
the  country  would  found  scholarships,  and  enable 
earnest  3^oimg  men  and  women  who  desire  a  train- 
ing in  Christian  work  but  have  not  money  enough 
to  pay  their  expenses,  to  preach  the  Gospel  of  the 
Kingdom.  They  cost  only  $150  per  annum.  A 
lump  sum  of  $3,000  for  the  Endowment  Fund  would 
make  this  scholarship  permanent. 


CHAPTER    XTV 

WORDS    THAT    I    TRKASLRE 

Miss  Strono^  is  a  woman  of  great  faith,  of  orreat 
power  in  prayer,  a  woman  around  whom  the  sweet 
fragrance  of  the  gardens  of  God  ever  hangs;  and  the 
girl  who  needs  a  sweet  home  life,  a  true  friend,  a 
knowledge  of  God,  and  the  refinement  and  beauty 
of  true  Christianity  will  be  glad  to  get  to  know  her. 
She  did  not  allow  any  one  of  us  to  drift  into  mere 
piety.  To  her,  faith  is  a  practical,  vital  force,  and 
God  a  living  God,  not  a  being  to  be  dreamt  over. 
After  Mr.  Moody's  last  visit  to  us,  new  life  seemed 
to  take  possession  of  her,  and  day  by  day,  with 
patient  work  and  striving,  she  sought  to  lead  us 
into  higher  truths  and  deeper  experiences.  Some- 
times she  would  leave  her  office  at  lo  p.  m.,  worn 
and  weary  after  having  gone  through  one  interview 
after  another,  but  we  would  see  her  next  morning 
at  our  devotions,  her  eye  bright,  her  face  full  of  the 
glory  of  God's  new  morning,  her  voice  ringing  with 

lOI 


WORDS    THAT    1     rkl'.ASUKK  IO3 

truth  and  power.  After  Mr.  Moody's  death  slie 
became  even  more  zealous  that  our  lives  should  be 
filled  with  power  from  on  high. 

"I  never  realized  tlie  value  of  a  life  until  he  was 
taken  from  us,"  she  told  us  one  mornino-.  I  think 
it  was  on  that  same  mornini;-  she  told  us  that  Mr. 
Moody  used  to  say:  "Character  is  what  a  man  is  in 
the  dark.  "  For  days  and  days  her  one  theme  was 
"Be  filled  with  the  Spirit,"  and  with  that  she  would 
tell  us  to  "rejoice  evermore."  Here  are  a  few  of 
her  gems : 

"Every  soul  filled  with  the  vSpirit  is  full  of  joy, 
for  joy  is  the  fruit  of  the  Spirit.*' 

"It  is  only  an  understanding  of  sin  that  makes 
the  cross  of  Christ  intelligible." 

"Samson  arose  and  shook  himself,  not  knowing 
his  strength  had  left  him,  and  we  often  arise  in  our 
ignorance  and  go  about  our  work  blind  to  the  fact 
that  God  is  no  longer  with  us.  Shall  we  give  up 
God  and  strength  and  power  and  light,  for  Delilah 
and  weakness,  powerlessness  and  blindness?" 

"If  we  go  with  the  'I  am  holier  than  thou'  spirit 
to  sinners,  we  will  convince  them  of  nothing.  We 
must  have  sympathy  and  tenderness  before  we  can 
reach  a  suffering,  sin-sick  soul." 


104  A     kll'OR'lLU     AT     MOODV   S 

"If  we  arc  not  conscious  of  our  own  sin  and  (xod's 
^•oodness  and  grace  to  us,  we  cannot  find  the  way  to 
a  sinner's  heart." 

"We  ought  to  have  the  power  to  convict  people 
of  sin.  That  is  what  Jesus  said  He  would  send  the 
Holy  Spirit  to  us  for.  If  this  is  not  so  in  our  lives, 
something  is  wrong." 

"Powerlessness  is  the  result  of  unbelief.  It  may 
be  scarcely  conscious  unbelief,  but  it  is  tliere  all  the 
same.  God  never  failed  any  one  who  believed  in 
Him." 

"A  lack  of  prayer  always  results  in  poverty  of 
soul. " 

"  'Able  to  do.'  If  we  believed  these  three  words 
we  would  have  souls  saved  every  day.  'God  is 
able.'  If  we  looked  to  Him  for  power,  instead  of 
looking  all  the  time  at  the  hard  things  we  wanted 
done,  we  would  be  looking  at  results  instead  of 
waitinof  for  them." 


The  results  of  ]\Iiss  Strong's  faith  were  soon 
apparent,  for  before  long  the  power  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  descended  upon  the  Institute,  and  power  from 
on  high  seemed  to  possess  every  student.     It  seemed 


WORDS    THAT    1    TRKASUKE  IO5 

as  if  God  loved  I).  L.  Moody  so  well  that  when  lie 
took  him  home  He  wanted  to  show  the  world  liow 
mueh  He  loved  him  by  ponrin^j^  blessino^s  from 
heaven  upon  his  work.  The  power  of  God  went 
with  onr  workers  into  the  jail,  and  one  vSunday  the 
Spirit  of  God  so  wroui^ht  in  the  hearts  of  the  women 
in  prison  that  six  of  them  came  to  Him,  and  many 
others  wept  over  their  sins  and  asked  us  to  show 
them  the  way  to  God.  Our  meeting  was  cut  short 
because  of  prison  rules,  which  demanded  that  we 
leave  the  jail  at  a  certain  hour,  and  so  we  had  to 
ask  other  enquirers  to  wait.  But  the  good  work 
commenced,  and  is  continuing.  One  girl,  herself  a 
prisoner,  led  her  friend  to  God  after  she  was  con- 
verted. 

Our  students  went  to  cottage  meetings  and  hospi- 
tals, police  stations,  prisons  and  private  homes,  with 
new  zeal;  and  souls  were  saved  and  the  workers 
blessed  with  what  seemed  to  be  a  new  and  special 
blessing. 


CHAPTER    XV 

THE    SAFETY    OF    THE    SHEEP 

One  of  the  most  blessed  things  that  the  Bible 
Institute  stands  for,  is  the  unity  of  the  Body  of 
Christ.  People  of  different  creeds  and  beliefs  go 
there,  freighted  with  their  theological  baggage 
trains,  which  they  intend  to  run  along  their  own 
special  road  of  thought,  but  in  a  little  while  they 
meet  some  one  else,  equally  determined,  coming 
along  in  an  opposite  direction.  Of  course  the  dan- 
ger signal  is  waved,  the  pressure  of  steam  is  let 
down,  the  brakes  are  shut,  and  explanations  are 
offered.  To  be  sure,  the  explanations  have  a  good 
deal  of  warmth  in  them  at  first,  for  each  train  owner 
has  concluded  that  he  and  he  alone  is  principal 
owner  and  stockholder,  and  that  the  other  is  only  a 
presumptuous  claimant  and  an  interloper.  Bnt  the 
Book  settles  it,  and  some  scanning  of  the  title  deeds 
causes  a  great  deal  of  surprise,  and  after  a  time 
each  one  commences  to  move  a  little  to  one  side  and 

to  modify  his  claims. 

io6 


THK    SAFETY    UF    THE    SHEKl'  I07 

One  Southern  student  expressed  it  tersely  by  say- 
ing": "Before  I  came  here  I  was  always  booming-  my 
own  little  business,  but  I  see  now  that  we  are  not  the 
only  sure-enough  good  people,  and  that  the  other 
churches  are  simply  houses  where  our  brothers  and 
sisters  live." 

It  was  amusing  to  see  some  ardent  ultra-Calvinist 
try  to  promulgate  his  "exclusive"  views  in  the  lec- 
ture room,  and  find  himself  a  few  moments  later 
g^azing  open-tnouthed  at  an  open  heaven,  where 
"whosoever  will  may  come"  is  the  prominent 
inscription.  Or  it  may  be  that  some  good  ]\Iethodist 
brother  Avho  has  made  so  much  of  his  "free  will" 
that  he  has  lost  sight  of  the  great  doctrine  of  the 
sovereignty  of  God,  awakes  at  one  of  the  lectures 
and  gets  the  truth  "the  other  man"  has,  without 
losing  any  of  his  own.  Or  some  enthusiastic  Bap- 
tist enters  the  Institute,  looking  askance  at  any  one 
who  has  not  been  immersed,  but  while  his  truth  is 
firmly  upheld  and  recognized  he  is  showm  that  after 
all  it  may  be  that  it  not  so  important  for  the  man  to 
be  applied  to  water  as  it  is  for  water  to  be  applied 
to  the  man.  He  meets  many  who  were  merely 
sprinkled  at  their  infancy  and  yet  who  have  received 
the   Baptism  of  the   Holy  vSpirit.     It  is  not  that  his 


THK    SAFI/rV    OF    THK    SHKKl'  109 

belief  is  taken  from  him,  but  that  more  is  added  to 
it,  and  that  he  learns  more  of  the  height  and  the 
depth,  tlie  len^^th  and  the  breadth,  tlie  beautv  and 
s3Mnmetry  of  the  Gospel  he  loves. 

"The  Methodists  hold  i^reat  truths  that  the  Pres- 
byterians woiild  do  well  to  have,  and  the  Presbyter- 
ians hold  equally  great  ones  that  the  Methodists  can 
ill  afford  to  be  without,"  said  Mr.  Torrey  one  day 
in  the  lecture  room.  "And  then,"  he  added,  "I  am 
o-lad  that  so  many  creeds  are  represented  here,  and 
that  we  can  discuss  our  difficulties  and  find  the  way 
out  of  them  together.  No  one  cliurch  holds  all  of 
the  truth,  and  a  great  deal  of  your  usefulness  will  be 
spoiled  if  you  commence  to  think  it  does.  The 
holiest  men  and  women  I  ever  knew  were  the  most 
teachable  ones. " 

Tlie  best  of  people  are  apt  to  be  prejudiced  and 
dogmatic,  but  I  have  grave  doubts  if  creed  will  be 
much  of  a  stumbling  block  to  any  Institute  student. 
He  will  remain  as  loyal  to  his  faith  and  church  as 
ever,  but  it  will  be  Christ  for  men  rather  than  Christ 
for  an  ism,  and  it  will  be  the  salvation  of  souls 
rather  than  the  mere  building  up  of  a  denomination. 

•i^  vr  7f  vr  TV- 

"And    I    give    unto   tliem    eternal    life;    and    they 


no  A     kl  I'OUIKR     AT     MOODY    S 

shall  never  perish  and  no  one  shall  snatch  them  out 
of  my  hand. " 

Ah  I  many  a  stndent  knows  what  comfort  that 
promise  was  on  many  an  occasion.  He  had  labored 
and  prayed  and  longed  until  he  was  sick  with  long-- 
ing-,  for  some  soul  to  be  saved,  and  at  last  he  heard 
dull  lips  break  into  music  and  eyes  darkened  with 
images  of  sin  brighten  in  the  glow  of  the  eternal 
springtime.  And  then !  Ah,  what  Christian  worker 
does  not  know  the  story?  The  octopus  of  darkness 
seized  the  freed  slave,  and  the  light  fades  and  the 
music  ceases.  But  the  captive  will  never  again  sing 
the  songs  his  chains  once  rattled  to.  He  is  Ixick  in 
the  old  plantation,  but  bitterly  he  regrets  the  jour- 
ne3^  Ah,  he  wants  his  new  master,  and  his  lips 
will  only  sing  the  songs  of  Zion  ever  again. 

Who  says  grace  makes  men  flabby-chested  and 
weak  morally?  It  is  only  the  one  who  has  known 
grace  that  knows  true  repentance.  It  is  only  the 
one  Avho  knows  that  his  sins  placed  the  Son  of  God 
on  the  accursed  tree  that  really  understands  how 
black  sin  is,  how  deep  hell  is,  and  how  high  heaven 
is,  and  that  hates,  with  a  hatred  your  legalist  never 
knows,  the  things  that  made  him  turn  his  back  upon 
his  Father's  house  and  drove  him  to  swine-feedino-. 


THE    SAFKTV     OF      THE    SHEEP  m 

Thank  God  we  do  not  need  to  keep  either  our- 
selves or  our  converts.  We  have  a  mighty  God  who 
can  move  an  Eg-yptian  king-  to  plead  like  a  beggar 
to  one  of  a  despised  race,  or  send  a  persecuting 
Pharisee,  made  blind  and  broken-hearted,  to  the  very 
ones  he  hated.  Some  one  has  truly  said  that  St. 
Paul  was  a  wolf,  and  that  God  made  a  shepherd's 
collie  of  him. 


Now  perhaps  some  one  is  saying  what  a  student 
said  in  the  lecture  room,  to  Mr.  Torrey,  one  day: 

"What  does  vSt.  Peter  mean  when  he  says,  'For 
if  after  tliey  have  escaped  the  defilements  of  the 
world,  through  tlic  knowledge  of  the  Lord  and 
Savior  Jesus  Christ,  they  are  again  entangled  therein 
and  overcome,  the  last  state  is  becomxe  worse  with 
them  than  the  first  ...  It  is  happened  unto  them 
according  to  the  true  proverb  .  .  .  the  sow  that 
had  washed  is  tiu'ned  to  wallowing  in  the  mire'?" 
(2  Peter  2  :  20-22.) 

Mr.  Torrey  replies:  "You  have  to  read  the  entire 
chapter  to  get  the  sense  of  it.  A  man  is  pictured 
here  who  is  in  bondage  himself  (see  verse  19),  but 
who  has  escaped  the  pollutions  of  the  world  through 


112  A     RKIH)RTKR     AT    MOODV   S 

a  superficial  knowledge  of  Christ  (one  sees  such 
'conversions'  often),  but  not  having  been  regener- 
ated, and  not  having  received  Christ  he  falls  back. 
A  washed  sow  wallowing  in  the  mire  is  not  a  sheep, 
and  (jod  never  calls  His  sheep  any  such  name. 
This  is  the  explanation  also  of  Hebrews  6  :  1-7,  which 
is  such  a  stumbling  block  to  many.  Having  'tasted' 
of  the  heavenly  gift  does  not  mean  that  they  have 
received  it  into  their  souls.  A  man  may  taste  his 
dinner  and  die  of  starvation  because  he  did  not  cat 
it.  Being  a  partaker  of  the  Holy  Ghost  does  not 
mean  that  one  receives  the  baptism  of  the  Holy 
Ghost.  One  partakes  of  the  Holy  Ghost  in  a  cer- 
tain way  in  conviction  of  sin.  St.  Paul  was  not 
speaking  to  truly  regenerate  men  as  is  seen  m  the 
context  (verse  9):  'But,  beloved,  we  are  persuaded 
better  things  of  you,  and  things  that  accompany  sa/- 
vatioji.'  The  trouble  with  the  man  mentioned  in  St. 
Matthew  12:43  i^  that  his  house  was  empty.  The 
unclean  spirit  returned  and  found  his  house  empty, 
swept  and  garnished.  That  man  tried  to  reform 
himself.  He  gave  up  his  bad  habits  and  accpiired 
some  good  ones,  but  it  could  not  be  a  permanent 
garnishing  without  Christ.  The  trouble  with 
those  who    fall    back   is   that  they  are   empty.      No 


IHK    SAFKl'V     OF     TIIK    SHI.KP  II3 

one  shall  ever  pluck  Christ's  little  lamljs  out  of   His 
hand. 

How  triad  some  of  us  were  to  carry  tliat  message 
to  the  jail.  Oli,  what  strength  there  is  in  Christ 
Jesus,  for  the  weak,  the  faint,  the  characterless. 
Out  of  the  thirty  or  more  L^irls  saved  at  the  jail  in  a 
few  months,  we  know  of  only  one  who  has  fallen 
back,  but  we  do  know  of  many  bravely  renouncini^' 
their  lives  of  sin,  returning  to  their  homes,  going  to 
work,  and  some  facing  long  sentences  in  Joliet 
prison  with  praise  upon  their  lips.  Thank  Cod  for 
a  full  and  glorious  Gospel  that  not  only  touches 
one's  emotions,  but  changes  the  whole  nature  and 
makes  for  righteousness!  The  Institute  does  not 
give  doubts;  it  gives  convictions.  "I  know  whom 
I  have  believed"  is  the  vigorous  protest  to  all  weak- 
kneed  unbelief. 


CHAPTER    XVI 

TELLINC;    INCIDENTS    OF    THE    WORK 

The  practical-minded  person  who  enters  a  large 
weaving-  factory  where  there  is  a  great  deal  of 
machinery,  will  ask,  "What  do  you  make  here?" 
He  will  conclude  that  there  are  some  results  from 
all  the  energy,  skill,  and  systematized  labor  put 
forth,  and  if  there  are  not,  he  will  consider  the 
stockholders  and  employees  to  be  wild  dreamers. 
Should  any  one  show  him  a  few  pieces  of  old  cloth 
made  at  some  other  factory,  but  faintly  polished 
and  poorly  dyed  here,  he  will  say:  "AVhy,  I  thought 
they  wove  the  cloth  here,"  and  then,  after  examin- 
ing the  partly  rejuvenated  old  material  he  will 
add:   "This  will  not  last  a  month!" 

The  readers  of  this  book  will  naturally  question 

what  is  being  done  at  the  Bible  Institute,  and  how 

many  regenerated  souls  are  born  again  through  the 

power  of  the   Hol}^  Spirit  and  the  systematized  and 

consecrated    efforts  of   its    students.     As   incidents 

114 


TELLINC;    INCIDKNTS    OF    THE    WORK  II5 

Speak  for  themselves,  better  than  any  amount  of 
moralizing,  the  following-  are  culled  from  a  large 
number  and  appended  here. 

A  student  who  left  the  Institute  to  hold  special 
meetings  in  a  town  in  Minnesota,  wrote  the  letter 
that  follows: 

"Dear  Mr.  Torrey: — Just  a  month  ago  I  went 
into  the  Y.  M.  C.  A,  and  there  I  saw  standing  by 
the  stove  a  man  who  seemed  nothing  but  rags  and 
dirt.  He  put  me  in  mind  of  some  of  these  we  see 
in  the  slums  of  Chicago.  I  took  him  into  the  parlor 
of  the  building  and  began  to  talk  with  him,  and 
found  out  that  his  past  life  was  one  of  the  darkest. 
He  had  been  a  tramp  for  twenty-five  years,  he  had 
been  in  prison  a  number  of  times,  and  at  the  time  I 
met  him  he  was  as  low  as  it  was  possible  for  him  to 
get.  He  was  a  Roman  Catholic.  I  asked  him  what 
he  had  been  doing  all  winter,  and  he  said  that  he 
had  been  in  the  woods  cutting  cord  wood,  and  that 
he  had  made  $7.00  above  his  board  and  the  first  day 
he  came  out  he  spent  every  cent  of  it  for  drink.  I 
showed  him  that  his  present  condition  was  only  the 
natural  outcome  of  a  life  of  sin,  and  held  before 
him  the  fact  that  it  was  merely  the  wages  the  devil 
paid  to  those  who  served  him.     Then  I  turned  and 


Il6  A     REPORTER     AT    .MOODY  S 

sliowed  him  what  (iod  would  do  for  him  if  he  would 
only  accept  Mis  vSon.  After  many  questions  back 
and  forth  with  respect  to  the  Bible  and  the  Christian 
life,  I  saw  that  he  was  read}"  for  me  to  g-ive  him 
John  3:  16,  John  1  :  12,  and  John  3:  36,  with  Romans 
6:  23. 

"After  talking"  on  these  portions  of  Scripture  he 
said  that  he  was  ready  to  accept  Christ  and  serve 
Him  all  the  rest  of  his  life.  We  knelt  down;  I 
prayed  for  him  and  then  asked  him  to  pray  for  him- 
self, which  he  did.  While  he  was  praying-  I  saw 
that  he  was  an  educated  man  by  the  language  he 
used,  and  when  he  got  off  his  knees  his  face  was 
shining  because  his  sins  were  forgiven.  Now  it  was 
noon,  and  knowing  that  he  had  no  money  and 
nowhere  to  go  for  anything  to  eat,  I  took  him  to  the 
hotel  with  me.  While  we  were  dining  I  asked  him 
about  his  educational  advantages,  and  he  told  me 
that  he  had  been  six  years  in  college  and  two  and  a 
half  years  in  a  theological  seminary,  preparing  for 
the  priesthood.  I  spoke  to  him  in  Greek  in  order  to 
see  whether  he  was  really  telling  me  the  truth  or 
not,  for  indeed  it  was  hard  to  believe  it  as  I  looked 
at  him.  But  it  was  all  right.  Since  his  conversion 
he  has  spoken  in  nearly  all  tlie  churches  here  and  is 


Il8  A     RKPORTKR     AT    MOODV's 

a  power  for  ^i^ood.  He  now  has  a  position  in  the 
Northern  Pacific  vShops  aL  this  i)hice,  so  that  he  can 
remain  here  and  work  for  tlie  Lord.  But  lie  feels 
that  the  Lord  wants  him  to  i^ive  his  life  in  work  for 
ITim,  and  I  think  it  is  cpiite  likely  tliat  he  will  go  to 
Minneapolis  and  take  up  some  kind  of  regular 
Christian  work. 

"In  our  special  meetings  we   had  seventeen   con- 
versions, .nearly  all  grown  people." 


Miss    G ,    who  has  worked  principally  in  the 

slums  of  Chicago  during  her  stay  at  the  Insti- 
tute, has  had  many  and  varied  experiences  in  the 
neighborhood  known  as  ''the  Levee,"  as  well  as  in 
the  city  hospitals.  In  February,  1900,  she  found  a 
Norwegian  family  living  in  one  of  the  wretched 
tenement  neighborhoods.  It  consisted  of  a  woman 
about  48  years  old,  and  three  children,  aged  11,  9 
and  4  years.      In   addition  to  these,  there  was  a  man 

named   NiclKjlas  P ,  who   said  he  lived   upstairs 

and  occasionally  came  down  to  Icjok  after  the  chil- 
dren for  their  mother,  wIkj  worked  at  times  in  a 
restaurant.  'I'he  whole  family  livetl  in  one  misera- 
bly   furnished    room,    so    ])oorly    heated    that    Miss 


■ri;i.LlN(i     INCIDKNTS    OV    Till'.    WOKK  II9 

G ,    almost    shivered    with   the  cold  dn^in<^'    her 

first  visit.  She  invited  the  children  to  the  Little 
One's  meetino-  and  the  mother  to  the  Mother's 
meetini^-  at  the  Chicago  A\enu  e  (Moody's)  Church, 
and  they  promised  to  attend.  Finding  that  the 
children  had  little  or  no  clothes,  she  procured 
suitable  garments  for  them.  After  vainly  seek- 
ing to  lead  the  mother  to  accept  the  atone, 
ment  of  her  Savior,  she  left  her  address  and  went 
home. 

A  few  nights  later  the  oldest  girl  called  for  her 
and  announced  that  her  mother  was  very  ill.  Miss 
G immediately  went  to  her  and  found  her  suffer- 
ing so  severely  that  she  had  to  be  removed  at 
once  to  the  hospital.  The  missionary  spent  the 
afternoon  in  finding  places  where  the  children 
would  be  cared  for  temporarily.  Before  leaving 
them  for  the  night  she  burned  their  clothes,  which 
were  filthy,  and  washed  their  little  neglected  bodies. 
While  doing  this,  she  noticed  that  the  oldest  girl 
was  concealing  a  letter.  After  using  every  strate- 
gem  to  get  it  from  her,  and  failing,  she  prayed 
about  it  and  was  led  to  search  at  the  bottom  of  a 
certain  waste-basket.  Here  she  found  the  letter 
torn  into  small   shreds.      After  CLireful  piecing  and 


I  20  A     RKI'ORri'k     AT     MOODV    S 

piittiiii^-  toi^ctlier  she  unraveled  the  mystery  that 
surrounded  the  family. 

It  seems  that  the  woman  had  eloped  with  the  ^Ir. 

P ,  who  pretended  he  lived  upstairs,  taking  her 

three  ehildren.  The  sinful  i^air  had  several  hun- 
dred dollars  when  they  reached  Chicago  from  the 
Western  mining  t(nvn  where  they  had  formerly 
lived,  but  after  that  was  gone  they  commenced  to 
receive  some  of  the  wages  of  sin.  The  letter  was 
from  the  woman's  sister  to  the  little  girl,  telling  her 
to  come  home  to  her.  The  child  had  written  to  her 
aunt  without  her  mother's  knowledge.  She  was  so 
afraid  of  her  mother  that  it  was  with  great  difficulty 
she  was  persuaded  to  tell  the  entire  story,  but  when 

she  did.  Miss  G went  tf)  the  hospital  to  see  the 

mother,  and  confronted  her  with  it.  At  first  she 
denied  the  truth  of  it,  with  oaths  and  protestations, 
but  at  last  confessed  her  sin,  and  with  tears  of  peni- 
tence gave  herself  to  her  Savior.      Miss   G then 

wrote  to  the  husband,  and  told  of  the  change  God 
had  made  in  his  wife,  as  well  as  the  forgiveness  of 
Christ.  It  touched  his  heart,  and  he  wrote  saying 
that  he  would  receive  her  back,  and  that  his  heart 
was  lonely  for  his  children.  The  poor  little  ones 
were   overjoyed,    for   they   had   been   told  by  their 


TELLING    INCIDENTS    OF    THE    WORK  121 

mother  that  their  father  had  died  in  the  mines  at 
Iron  River,  and  that  she  had  come  to  Chicago  in 
order  tb  find  work  and  support  them.  Before  leav- 
ing; for  liome  she  asked  the  children  to  forg^ive  her 
for  lying;  to  them  and  for  teacliing-  them  to  lie,  and 
while  she  wept  tears  of  penitence,  the  two  little 
girls  knelt  down  and  asked  God  to  keep  mamma 
always  good  and  to  make  them  good  too.  The  little 
boy  was  too  young  to  understand  it  all,  but  he  cried 
for  papa,  and  crowed  with  glee  when  he  was  told 
that  he  was  going  home  to  him. 

A  few  days  later  Miss   G received    a    letter 

from  the  husband  and  father,  saying  that  he,  too,  had 
taken  a  stand  as  a  Christian,  and  had  gone  with 
his  famih^  to  church  on  the  vSabbath  for  the  first 
time  in  many  years.  He  blamed  himself  for  not 
having  sought  God  sooner  and  for  not  having  taught 
his  children  about  the  Savior  who  sent  His  servant 
to  them  under  such  sad  circumstances. 

Mr.    P remained  in  Chicago,  and  Miss  G 

endeavored  to  make  him  see  the  error  of  his  ways 
and  to  lead  him  to  repentance.  Though  seeing 
clearly  the  gravity  of  his  position,  he  said  he  could 
not  give  up  his  life  of  sin  and  turn  to  God. 

"I  have  a  praying  mother  in  vSweden,"  he  said, 


122  A    REPORTKR    AT    MOODV S 

"and  in  every  letter  she  reminds  nie  of  the  faet  that 
she  consecrated  me  to  God  when  I  was  a  baby. " 
He  said  that  he  v^^as  only  28  years  of  age  and  was 
now  a  slave  to  sin,  that  he  had  nothing-  to  look  back 
upon  but  a  spoiled  life,  and  nothing  to  look  forward 
to  but  the  hopelessness  of  a  soul  ruled  by  a  will  that 
was  tributary  to  Satan.  Surely  it  is  true  that  what- 
soever a  man  soweth  that  shall  he  also  reap. 


But  the  Institute  work  is  not  all  slum  work,  nor 
is  all  done  among  the  degraded  and  outcast.  One 
of  our  girls  went  to  a  large  factory  one  day  at  the 
noon  hour,  and  preached  the  simple  Gospel  -to  a 
large  roomful  of  girls.  Ten  of  them  asked  to 
be  prayed  for,  and  one  young  man  who  was 
attending  to  the  machinery  manifested  a  desire 
to  become  a  Christian.  Many  families  are  visited 
and  more  than  one  mother  who  never  attended 
church  of  any  kind,  has  been  brought  to  see 
her  responsibility  for  the  little  ones  God  has 
given  her,  and  whose  moral  and  spiritual  welfare 
she  has  entirely  overlooked.  Many  women  whose 
poverty  precluded  such  a  thing,  have  medical 
attendance  provided,  and  in  a  number  of  cases  food 


TKLLING    IXCIDKNTS    OF    THF,    WORK  123 

and  money  are   o;iven,  where  the  need  is   real  and 
the  person  worth}'. 


Miss  E.  L.  Haines,  who  is  now  assoeiate  superin- 
tendent of  the  ]\Iadison  Square  Church  House,  New 
York,  has  many  interesting  stories  to  tell  of  the 
early  days  of  the  Institute.  When  Mr.  vSchivera 
and  Mr.  Merton  Smith  were  conducting  tent  meet- 
ings for  Mr.  Moody,  Miss  Haines  was  assisting  in 
the  personal  work.  The  tent  was  located  on  a  lot 
in  the  lower  part  of  Wentworth  Aven:ie.  One  night 
a  German  woman  called  and  asked  Miss  Haines 
to  return  with  her  to  her  home  as  she  was  afraid  to 
go  herself,  her  husband  having  beaten  her  severel^^ 
Miss  Haines  prayed  with  her,  calmed  her,  and  then 
went  to  make  a  little  social  call  at  her  home.  To 
her  surprise  she  found  that  the  husband  was  a  burly 
colored  man,  whose  fame  as  a  wife-beater  was  only 
exceeded  by  his  ugliness.  The  policeman  stationed 
in  the  neighborhood  characterized  them  all  as  "a 
bad  lot,"  and  gave  it  as  his  opinion  that  nothing- 
could  be  done  for  such  degraded  people,  but  Miss 
Haines  kept  on  working  among  them  and  soon  the 
wife  was  converted  and  became  an  earnest  worker 


124  A    ri;i'()R1i;r   at   .moody  s 

among-  the  women  of  her  neiij^hborhood.  A  year 
later  the  husband  accepted  Christ.  When  he  died 
not  long-  afterwards,  the  wife  sold  the  house  they 
li\^ed  in,  and  went  to  Germany  to  carry  the  message 
of  salvation  to  her  relatives  and  friends. 

At  another  tent  meeting,  Miss  Haines  dealt  with 
a  tramp  who  professed  to  be  an  atheist.  He  was  an 
intelligent  fellow,  well  versed  in  the  doctrines  of 
atheism,  which  he  preached  glibly  to  the  workers 
whenever  he  got  the  chance.  ^liss  Haines  quoted 
several  passages  of  Scripture  to  him,  but  seeing 
that  he  was  taking  delight  in  arguing  in  defense  of 
his  own  position,  she  ceased  speaking.  The  Word 
of  God  was  swifter  and  keener  than  any  two-edged 
sword,  and  it  did  its  own  work.  Many  months 
afterwards  she  went  to  a  mission  meeting,  and 
found  her  tramp  dressed  in  broadcloth  and  preach- 
ing. He  had  l^een  converted  through  the  vScripture 
texts  she  had  used,  and  had  become  a  student  of  a 
theological  seminary,  with  the  intention  of  entering 
the  ministry.  He  said  that  on  the  night  of  his  con- 
version he  had  not  slept  in  a  bed  for  three  months 
and  had  been  a  professional  tramp  and  outcast.  He 
was  scarcely  recognizable  in  his  new  garb,  and 
perhaps  he  felt  as  much  out  of  place  in  it  as  did  the 


TEI>LIN(;     INCIDENTS    OK     THi:  .WORK  I  25 

prodigal  son  in  the  new  robe  and  gold  ring,  but  like 
that  other,  he  knew  that  while  he  was  "afar  off," 
his  Father's  "welcome  home"  had  been  given  to 
him,  and  swine-food  had  been  replaced  by  heavenly 
manna. 

The  Christian  worker  who  accepts  without  cavil 
the  statement  of  our  blessed  Lord  in  John  10:28 
("I  give  unto  them  eternal  life,  and  they  shall  never 
perish;  and  no  one  shall  snatch  them  out  of  my 
hand" — Revised  Version),  will  take  fresh  courage 
in  the  following  incident:  A  student,  while  making 
family  calls,  was  asked  to  call  at  a  house  where  a 
man  was  lying  ill  unto  death.  A  few  days  before 
he  had  had  a  stroke  of  paralysis,  and  though  his 
body  was  entirely  lifeless,  his  mind  was  perfectly 
clear.  Forty-five  years  before,  he  had  been  led  to 
Christ  b}'  a  favorite  daughter,  who  was  dying  at  the 
time.  He  promised  to  remain  true  and  to  meet  her 
in  heaven,  and  for  some  time  he  was  an  earnest 
worker  for  his  Master.  But,  after  a  w^hile,  like 
many  another,  he  became  cold  and  careless,  and 
apparently  fell  away  from  the  faith,  though  there 
was  no  I'apsing  into  sin.  But  the  Son  of  God  who 
redeemed  him  had  claimed  him  forever  and  ever, 
and  so,  through  the  ministrations  of  the  student  he 


126  A     KKPORTKR     A  1"     MOUDY's 

accepted  tlie  rich  grace  of  his  vSavior  ag-ain.  He 
knew,  that  he  would  lose  some  of  the  rewards  he 
might  have  had,  ]:)ut  he  knew  too  that  he  would  not 
pass  into  the  judgment  of  the  unbeliever,  that  death 
had  been  swallowed  up  in  victory. 

Let  no  one  think  that  because  salvation  is  free, 
and  grace  is  the  gift  of  God,  that  the  faithful  soldier 
of  the  cross  will  receive  no  more  honor  from  the 
Lord,  than  the  sluggish,  selfish  incapable  who  lived 
a  sort  of  professional  Christian  life,  and  wanted  the 
joy  of  Christ's  resurrection  without  the  fellowship  of 
His  sufferings.  The  Lord  in  His  parables  on  the 
unfaithful  steward  and  the  talents  teaches  us  this 
lesson. 

A  proper  understanding  of  the  parable  of  the 
Sower  and  the  superficiality  of  human  nature,  would 
keep  many  a  one  from  wondering  why  persons  "fall 
from  grace."  No  one  can  say  whether  any  one 
else  is  rco;ciicratC(i  or  not,  though  any  one  can  tell 
when  a  person  is  converted.  If  the  difference  of 
the  terms  was  noted,  there  would  not  be  so  mucli 
trouble  in  understanding  why  professing  Christians 
backslide.  I  know  of  a  -woman  who  became  con- 
verted, that  is,  she  turned  away  of  herself  from 
Satan  to  God,  and  for  three  months  went  to  church 


TKM.IX(;    INCIDKNTS    OF    THR    WORK  127 

and  served  God  as  faithfully  as  she  knew  how.  But 
having-  received  no  new  life,  not  having-  been  born 
again,  she  fell  away.  At  length  she  was  truly 
regenerated,  and  her  love  for  Christ  and  her  hun- 
gering for  righteousness  have  never  ceased,  th(nigh 
this  is  several  years  ago. 

John  defines  sin  as  "lawlessness"  (i  John  3:5), 
that  is,  the  act  of  one  who  recognizes  no  law,  and  so 
he  says  that  whosoever  commits  sin  hath  not  known 
God.  Judas  is  a  type  of  the  spiritually  instructed 
man,  and  the  unregenerate  Christian  worker,  (Ye 
are  clean,  said  Christ,  but  not  all)\  Peter  is  a  type 
of  the  regenerate,  bat  tempted,  Christian.  The  one 
fell  into  sin  in  a  moment  of  weakness,  but  repented 
and  gave  his  life  for  his  Master;  the  other  deliber- 
ately planned  sin,  remained  in  it  and  died  a 
remorseful  suicide.  Were  he  a  child  of  God,  he 
could  not  remain  away  from  his  Father,  and  he 
would  have  asked  for  forgiveness  and  would  have 
received  it. 

"The  child  ot  God  can  never  fall  awa}^  eventu- 
ally," said  ^Ir.  Torrey,  one  day.  "I  do  not  believe 
as  much  in  the  final  perseverance  of  the  saints,  as  I 
do  in  the  final  perseverance  of  the  Savior." 


CHAPTER    XVIT 

THE    FAITH    DKl.IXKRED    Te)    THE    SAINTS 

Before  bringing-  these  sketches  to  a  close  we  must 
have  another  peep  at  the  lecture  room.  When  we 
do  we  Avill  see  that  Mr.  Torrey  is  on  the  platform 
again,  and  that  he  is  giving  proofs  of  the  divinity  of 
Christ.  A  student  asks  a  pertinent  question,  and 
we  listen  to  the  answer  with  interest. 

"Mahomet  imagined  he  was  the  sent  of  God. 
Could  Christ  not  also  have  been  deceived,  Mr.  Tor- 
rey?" (Mahomet's  special  and  convenient  revela- 
tions about  prophets'  wives  make  some  of  us 
doubtful  about  his  being  self-deceived.) 

The  answer  given  is:  "The  resurrection  of 
Christ  is  the  Gibraltar  of  Christian  evidence,  the 
Waterloo  of  infidelity  and  rationalism.  There  is  no 
doubt  about  that  being  fully  proven.  Eleven  men 
do  not  have  visions  at  the  same  time,  much  less  five 
hundred  (r  Cor.  15:6).  Renan  attempts  to  disprove 
it  ])y  saying,  'The  ])assion  of  a  hallucinated  woman 

I  28 


I'HK     I\I1H     1)1  I.I\  F.RI",I)      TO     nil-,    SAINTS  \  21) 

(Mary)  gives  to  the  world  a  resurrected  God.'  But 
there  was  a  Thomas  and  a  Matthew  in  the  apostolic 
company  to  be  convinced,  and  a  Paul  outside  to  be 
converted.  The  characters  of  Christ  and  Mahomet 
cannot,  of  course,  be  compared,  any  more  than  can 
tlie  results  of  their  work." 

"The  Son  of  God,"  Mr.  Torrey  continues,  "is 
g'iven  as  a  name  to  Christ  forty  times,  and  that  this 
is  used  as  a  distinctly  divine  name,  appears  from 
John  5:  18,  where  it  is  said  He  was  making-  Himself 
equal  with  God.  The  name  'only  begotten  son' 
occurs  five  times.  He  is  called  the  Fioly  One  (Acts 
3:  14),  and  we  know  that  in  the  Old  Testament  that 
title  is  given  to  God.  'The  Lord'  is  used  of  Jesus 
several  hundred  times.  The  word  translated  'Lord' 
is  used  of  men  nine  times,  but  not  at  all  in  the 
way  in  which  it  is  used  of  Christ.  He  is  spoken  of 
as 'The  Lord,'  just  as  God  is.  In  John  20:28, 
Thomas  calls  Jesus  'my  God,'  and  is  gently  rebuked 
for  not  believing  it  before.  Divine  attributes  are 
ascribed  to  Christ:  omnipotence,  omniscience,  and 
omnipresence.  He  raised  people  from  the  dead. 
He  knew  the  past  and  the  future  and  the"  secret 
thoughts  of  men.  He  saw  Philip  when  he  was 
under  the  fig  tree,  though   He  was  not  there  in  the 


pR()F]-;ssoK  \viij!i-;rt  \vi;ijsticr  white. 


THE    FAITH    DELIVERED    TO    THE    SAINTS  131 

flesh,  and  He  promised  to  be  in  believ^ers  (Jno. 
14:20)  and  wherever  two  or  three  were  gathered 
together  in  His  name.  Very  many  statements 
which  in  the  Old  Testament  are  made  distinctly  of 
Jehovah,  God,  are  taken  in  the  New  Testament  to 
refer  to  Jesus  Christ,  and  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ 
is  coupled  with  that  of  God  the  Father  in  numerous 
passages,  in  a  way  in  which  it  would  be  impossible 
to  couple  the  name  of  any  finite  being  with  that  of 
the  Deity.  Divine  worship  was  given  to  Jesus 
(Matt.  28:9;  Luke  24:52;  Matt.  14:33,  compare 
Acts  10:  25,  26  and  Rev.  22:8,  9).  Jesus  had  creative 
powers.  He  forgave  sin  and  He  promised  eternal 
life,  and  we  know  that  w^e  have  that  germ  of  eternal 
life  in  tis  to-day  because  we  have  believed  with  Peter 
that  He  is  the  Christ,  the  Son  of  the  Living  God." 
Ah,  as  we  listen  to  the  testimony  of  the  Word  of 
God  to  the  Sonship  and  power  of  our  Savior,  as  we 
look  anew  at  the  bleeding  and  broken  body,  our  faith 
tells  us  that  truly  "it  is  finished,"  and  that  one  drop 
of  that  priceless  and  precious  Blood  would  be 
sufficient  to  redeem  worlds.  We  go  to  our  work 
with  renewed  hope,  we  lift  the  standard  of  the  cross 
on  high,  knowing  that  is  the  power  of  God  unto 
salvation. 


Ij:?  A     REPURTKR     AT     .MOODV's 

'\Some  people,"  says  Mr.  Torrey,  *'are  ashamed 
of  the  cross  of  Christ,"  and  as  he  says  it  we  recol- 
lect that  we  have  met  them.  Ashamed  of  Jesus  I 
ashamed  of  walking  in  the  light,  ashamed  of  being 
whiter  than  snow,  ashamed  of  dwelling  in  the  glory, 
ashamed  of  being  a  prince  and  a  king  among  men, 
ashamed  of  wearing  the  righteousness  of  the  King 
of  Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords,  ashamed  of  being  an 
ambassador  to  the  only  Court  worthy  of  the  name, 
ashamed  of  being  a  free  being  with  all  the  freedom 
of  the  Son  of  God  crying  "glory  and  majesty  and 
power"  within,  ashamed  of  being  a  follower  of  the 
most  royal-hearted  man  that  ever  walked  this  sin- 
sown  earth !  Ah,  is  it  not  this  cowardly  and  abject 
bowing  of  Christians  to  the  Molochs  of  filth  and  sin 
and  mindless  and  soulless  "public  opinion"  that 
makes  their  fruitless  work  a  byword  and  a  shame? 
D.  L.  Moody  walked  this  earth  conscious  of  the 
greatness  of  the  God  in  whom  he  lived,  moved  and 
had  his  being,  and  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men, 
from  the  cultured  millionaire  to  the  illiterate  vag- 
abond, looked  at  him,  listened  to  him  and  fell  down 
before  his  teaching! 

The  practical  work  is  the  very  basis  of  spiritual 


THE     FAiril     DKLIVKRF.D     T(;     THK    SAINTS  I33 

life  and  gnnvth  at  the  Institute.  Class-room  teach- 
ing without  going  out  after  lost  souls  and  giving 
them  that  same  teaching,  only  makes  one  dogmatic. 
Praying  makes  one  a  dreamer  and  a  visionary  unless 
its  power  is  exercised  for  the  good  of  others. 
Asceticism  is  worse  than  rheumatism.  It  is  the 
man  or  woman  who  goes  into  the  crowd  and  lends  a 
hand,  that  God  can  use.  It  is  the  heart  that  can  be 
touched  with  the  feelings  of  infirmity,  and  the  eye 
that  can  weep,  and  the  hand  that  can  be  strong  in 
lifting  others,  and  in  causing  the  survival  of  the 
unfitted,  by  fitting  them  for  surviving,  that  the 
world  needs.  I  know  of  nothing  that  will  drive  the 
pools  of  stagnation  in  a  soul  into  a  dissolved  vapor, 
and  draw  down  in  their  place  the  dews  of  the 
Christ-sky,  like  saving  a  soul.  Saving  of  souls, 
prayer  and  study  of  the  Word  should  go  together. 
The  first  cannot  be  done  without  the  other  two,  and 
the  two  last  are  useless  without  the  first.  There 
are  people  who  are  "too  busy  to  pray,"  and  they 
produce  "converts"  too  busy  to  remain  converted. 
I  have  yet  to  meet  the  Christian  who  was  able  to 
help  me,  who  was  not  a  Christian  who  studied  the 
Bible  and  prayed.  Selfishness,  conceit,  fruitless- 
ness,   jealousies,  mere  organizing  of  forces,   small- 


134  A     RKPORTER    AT    MOODY  S 

ness,  and  powerlessness,  mark  the  "Christian 
worker"  who  fails  to  "search  the  Scriptures"  or  to 
"watch  and  pray." 


Miss  Strong  told  us  one  night  of  a  woman  who 
went  into  a  great  art  gallery,  and  Avas  shown  the 
trunk  of  a  human  form  sculptured  into  perfect  phys- 
ical beauty.  She  wondered  why  the  head  was 
missing,  and  asked  the  reason. 

"Oh,  that  is  a  torso,"  replied  the  friend. 

"Yes,  but  what  made  him  torso?"  was  her  second 
question. 

What  makes  many  Christians  torso?  I  think  I 
have  given  the  answer. 

I  believe  that  Mr.  Moody  was  guided  by  God 
when  he  arranged  that  work,  study,  and  prayer 
should  be  the  three  graces  that  preside  over  the 
Institute.  To  the  sick  our  students  went  with 
baskets  of  provisions  and  the  sympathy  of  a  friend; 
to  the  homeless  they  went  oftentimes  with  money 
and  aid  of  many  kinds;  to  the  soul-diseased  they 
went  with  "the  glad  tidings  of  great  joy"  ;  and  with 
it  all,  the  prayer  "Lord,  increase  our  faith  and  our 
love"   went  up   from   our   midst   as   we    assembled 


THE    FAITH     DELIVERED    TO    THE    SAINTS  1 35 

together  daily,  all  of  one  mind  and  heart  to  make 
Jesus  King-. 

The  sound,  rugged  teachings  of  the  lecture  room 
and  the  faithful  mirrorings  of  our  soul-life  in  the 
home  devotions  had  much  to  do  with  the  clean- 
limbed faith  that  grew  up  within  us,  and  looked  out 
with  clear  eyes  upon  the  things  of  God.  And  this 
reminds  me  of  a  mother  who  made  the  statement 
that  she  did  not  believe  in  faith  cure  "by  the  laying 
on  of  hands. " 

"Well,  I  do,"  replied  the  other  mother.  I  cured 
my  boy  of  the  cigarette  habit  in  that  way. ' ' 

Good,  solid,  honest  "laying  on  of  hands"  is  much 
better  for  little  boys,  and  big  ones  too,  than  pet- 
ting, coddling,  and  coaxing.  However  much  I  am 
an  advocate  of  the  truth,  the  truth  given  in  sugar- 
coated  pills  I  like  best.  You  can  say  hell  without 
spelling  it  h-e-1-1,  and  it  is  only  when  gentleness 
and  love  fails  that  we  should  spell  it  in  the  good 
old  orthodox  way  that  Jonathan  Edwards  loved. 


Speaking  of  the  holiness  of  God  in  the  lecture 
room,  one  day,  Mr.  Torrey  said:  "God  does  not 
punish  the  sinner  merely  because  the  sinner's  good 


136  A    REPORTER    AT    MOODY's 

makes  it  necessary.  God  is  holy.  God  hates  sin. 
Any  view  of  the  punishment  of  sin  that  leaves  out 
the  thought  of  its  being  an  expression  of  God's  holy 
hatred  of  sin,  is  not  only  unBiblical,  but  shallow 
and  dishonoring  to  God.  We  get  glimpses  at  times 
of  what  God's  hatred  of  sin  must  be  in  our  own 
burning  indignation  at  some  enormous  iniquity,  but 
God  is  infinitely  holy,  and  God's  wrath  at  the  small- 
est sin  is  infinitely  greater  than  ours  at  the  greatest 
enormity.  God  is  love,  it  is  true,  but  this  love  is 
not  of  the  sentimental  sort  that  sends  costly  bou- 
quets and  tender  missives  to  moral  monsters  in 
prison  (as  some  people  do).  God's  love  to  sinners 
will  never  be  appreciated  until  seen  in  the  light  of 
the  blazing  wrath  of  sin  that  accompanies  it.  For 
God  so  loved  the  world  that  He  gave  His  only 
begotten  Son,  that  whosoever  believeth  in  Him 
should  not  perish,  but  have  everlasting  life  (Jno. 
3:16).  God  ?s  love.  Love  is  a  desire  for  and 
delight  in  the  welfare  of  the  one  loved.  Love  (the 
love  that  gave  His  only  begotten  Son)  is  the  very 
essence  of  God's  moral  nature.  Not  merely  God 
loves,  but  God  is  love.  That  love  manifests  itself 
in  His  being  afflicted  when  His  loved  ones  are 
afflicted,  even  when  that  affliction  comes  from   His 


THE    fAITH    DELIVERED    TO    THE    SAINTS  137 

own  hand.  'Can  a  woman  forget  her  sucking  child, 
that  she  should  not  have  compassion  on  the  son  of 
her  womb?  Yea,  they  may  forget,  yet  will  not  I 
forget  thee.  Behold  I  have  graven  thee  on  the 
pahiis  of  my  hands;  thy  walls  are  continually 
before  me.'  " 

Of  regeneration  Mr.  Torrey  had  this  to  say: 
"Nothing  will  take  the  place  of  the  new  birch. 
Education,  morality,  religion,  orthodoxy,  baptism, 
reform — none  of  them,  nor  all  of  them,  are  suffi- 
cient.     Ye  must  be  born  again. 

"The  flesh  is  radicall}^  bad,  and  what  one  needs  is 
not  to  improve  the  old  nature  but  to  get  a  new  one. 
The  proofs  of  a  regenerated  man  are  these :  He 
believes  that  Jesus  is  the  Christ,  he  overcomes  the 
world,  he  is  not  doing  sin;  that  is,  he  is  not  com- 
mitting a  conscious,  intentional  violation  of  the  law 
of  God.  (The  literal  translation  of  i  Jno.  3:  9  would 
be:  "Everyone  begotten  out  of  God,  sin  is  not 
doing,  because  his  seed  in  him  is  remaining;  and 
he  cannot  be  sinning,  because  out  of  God  he  is 
begotten.)  The  regenerated  man  is  doing  righteous- 
ness, and  he  loves  the  brethren.  John  defines  love 
(i  Jno.  3 :  16-18)  not  as  a  mere  emotion  or  sentiment, 
but  that  genuine  desire  for  another's  good  that  leads 


138  A     REPORTER     AT    MOODV'S 

to  sacrifice  for  him — even  the  sacrifice  of  one's  own 
life  if  necessary. " 


In  closing-  I  will  give  a  few  quotations  from  ^Ir. 
Torrey  on  Prayer.  He  is  a  man  of  prayer  and  faith, 
and  as  these  two  qualities  mark  the  founding  and 
maintenance  of  the  Institute,  as  well  as  its  spiritual 
life  it  is  fitting  that  the  teachings  the  students 
receive  on  this  important  subject  should  be  given  a 
little  place. 

"If  I  regard  iniquity  in  my  heart  the  Lord  will 
not  hear  me  (Ps.  66:  18).  Now  the  word  translated 
'regard'  means  primarily  'to  see'  or  'to  look.'  Then 
it  comes  to  mean  'look  at  with  favor,'  'to  respect,' 
'approve,'  'regard.'  God  will  not  hear  the  man  who 
in  his  heart  looks  upon  sin  with  any  favor  or  allow- 
ance. Many  are  saying,  'The  promises  of  God  are 
not  true,  God  does  not  hear  my  prayers.'  Has  God 
ever  promised  to  hear  your  prayers?  God  very 
plainly  describes  the  class  whose  prayers  He  hears. 
Do  you  belong  to  that  class?  Whosoever  stoppeth 
his  ears  at  the  cry  of  the  poor  cannot  pray  so  that 
God  will  hear  (Prov.  21:13).  The  world's  maxim 
is,    'The   Lord  helps  those   who  help   themselves.' 


THE    FAITH     DELIVERED    TO    THE    SAINTS  139 

TJic  tnith  is,  tJic  Lord  Jielps  those  i^'/io  help  otiiers. 
Those  that  keep  God's  commandments  and  do  those 
things  which  are  pleasing-  in  His  sight,  can  pray  so 
that  God  will  hear.  So  can  those  who  abide  in 
Christ  and  in  whom  His  words  abide.  So  can  those 
who  dwell  in  the  secret  places  of  the  Most  High,  and 
who  set  their  love  upon  God.  Of  course,  they  that 
"believe  on  the  name  of  the  Son  of  God  can  pray  so 
that  God  will  hear  and  answer,  but  when  we  find 
promises  with  'ye'  and  'we'  in  them,  we  should 
study  the  context  and  find  out  who  the  'we's'  and 
*ye's'  are,  and  whether  we  belong  to  that  class. 
Many  promises  are  not  for  mere  believers,  but  for 
those  who  are  fully  surrendered  to  God." 

Many  Christians  might  safely  examine  their  own 
hearts  and  ask  themselves  if  these  reasons  for  unan- 
swered prayer  are  not  the  very  things  that  make 
their  prayers  "torso." 

Gcd  is  a  rewarder  of  them  that  diligently  seek 
Him;  He  hears  and  answers  the  prayers  of  His 
children;  He  is  an  ever-present  help  in  time  of 
trouble.  Never  can  I  be  thankful  enough  for  what 
the  Bible  Institute  did  for  me  in  revealing  to  me 
the  glory  of  God,  the  greatness  of  being  His  own 
child,  and  the  special  object  of  His  care  and  love. 


I40  A    REPORTER    AT    MOODY   S 

Blessed  hallowed  little  room  where  I  first  com- 
menced to  ask  God  for  things  that  were  really  great, 
where  I  dared  to  lamich  out  in  faith  for  faithless 
ones,  where  I  prayed  for  my  converts  and  com- 
inuned  with  God  after  a  day  of  toil  and  weariness, 
and  where  showers  of  blessings  were  poured  upon 
my  head  until  it  seemed  as  if  the  veil  must  part, 
and  the  glory  of  God  be  manifested. 

But  for  all  that,  these  Institute  days  were  very 
human.  We  laughed  through  our  dinner  to  avoid 
dyspepsia,  played  practical  jokes  upon  each  other 
that  were  apt  to  convulse  us  at  the  most  inoppor- 
tune moments,  and  when  snowtime  came  around 
enjoyed  snowballing  each  other  as  ferociously  as  if 
we  were  Zulus  instead  of  respectable  Christians. 
Surely  a  merry  heart  doeth  good  like  medicine,  and 
is  much  more  palatable  and  less  expensive. 

"How  can  you  laugh  so  much  when  souls  are 
going  down  to  hell?"  your  long-faced  Christian  asks. 

"Because  so  many  are  going  up  to  heaven,  and  I 
am  helping  them  up,"  I  reply. 

I  close  this  little  book  with  thankfulness  to  God  for 
the  subject  of  it,  with  my  prayers  that  the  blessing  of 
God  may  descend  upon  its  readers,  and  with  this  in- 
junction: "Rejoice  evermore, pray  without  ceasing." 


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54.  Absolute  Surrender.     Andrew  Murray. 

10.  According  to  Promise.    C.  H.  Spurgebn. 
1.  All  of  Grace.    C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

65.  Alone  in  London.     A  story.    Hesba  Stretton.     Illuctrated. 
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12.  Gospel  Pictures  and  Story  Sermons.     D.  W.  Whittle.     Illustrated, 
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52.  Heaven  on  Earth.     A.C.Dixon. 
74.  Home  Duties.     R.  T.  Cross. 

89.  How  to  Pray.     R.  A.  Torrey. 

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80.  John  Ploughman's  Pictures.     C.  H.  Spurgeon.    Illustrated. 

62.  .John  Ploughman's  Talk.     C.  H.  Spurgeon.     Illustrated. 
40.  Kadesh-Barnea.    J.  Wilbur  Chapman. 

83.  Life,  Shorter,  of  D.  L.  Moody.    Vol.  I.  His  Life.     P.  D.  Moody. 

«4.  Life,  Shorter,  of  D.  L.  Moody.    Vol.  II,  His  Work.     P.  D.  Moody. 

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4.  Life,  Warfare  and  Victory.     D.  W.  Whittle. 

15.  Light  on  Life's  Duties.    F,  B.  Mever 

90.  Little  King  Davie.     A  story.     Nellie  Hellis.     Illustrated. 
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63.  Meet  for  the  Master's  Use.    F.  B.  Meyer. 
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87.  Missionary  Penny.     A  story.    L  C.  W-     Illustrated^ 

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58.  Naaman  the  Syrian.    A,  B.  Mackay. 

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64.  Our  Bible.    Chas.  Leach  and  K.  A.  Torrey.    Illustrated.  \ 

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38.  Parables  from  Nature.     Mrs.  Alfred  Gatty. 

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46.  Royal  Exile.    T.  DeWitt  Talmage.  \ 

73  School  of  Obedience.     Andrew  Murray.  i 

34.  Second  Coming  of  Ciirist.    H.  B.  Stowe,  D.  L..  Moody,  Bishop  J.  C. 

Ryle,  Geo.   Muller,   D.  W.  ;Whittle,  Geo.  C.  Needham  and  C.  H.  4 

Spurgeon.  i 

32.  Secret  of  Guidance.    F.B.Meyer.  ] 

+  8.  Secret  Power.     D.  L..  Moody. 

17.  Selections  from  Spurgeon.    C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

53.  Select    Northheld    Sermons.      W.  W.    Moore,   H.    W.    Webb-Peploe. 

Murray.  McKenzie,  Gordon,  Speer,  Cuyler  and  others.  ; 

14.  Select  Poems. 

*21-  Select  Sermons.    D.  L..  Moody. 

91.  Short  Talks.    D.  L,.  Moody. 

20.  Sovereign  Grace.    D.  L.  Moody. 

26.  Sowing  and  Reaping.     t>.  L..  Moody. 

40.  Spirit-Filled  Life.    John  MacNeil. 

36.  Sundrv  Talks  to  the  Young.    Josiah  Mee.     Illustrated.  1 

75.  Tales  of  Adventure  from  the  Old  Book.    Thos.  Champness.  j 

22.  Temperance.  1 

81.  Thoughts  for  the  Quiet  Hour.    D.  L..  Moody. 

9.  To  the  Work.     D.  L.  Moody. 

77.  True  Estimate  of  Life;    G.  Campbell  Morgan. 

7,  Way  of  Life.    Spurgeon,  Chapman,  McNeill,  Moody,  Talmage.  i 

t  2.  W^ay  to  God.    D.  L..  Moody.  ] 

60.  W^eighed  and  Wanting.    D.  L.  Moody. 

42.  Whiter  than  Snow  and   Little  Dot.    A  story.     Mrs.  O.  F.   Walton.  j 

Illustrated.  i 


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